Vanitas, a Specie house

Set your table.

One table, five of sixteen objects, one light. The house paints it as a Dutch still life and numbers it as a commission.

2. Objects
3. Light

Choose your table.

TableMarbleBlack velvetPewter

A commission from $2,400

The table above is the house laying: a marble ledge, one candle, a bottle, a watch, a lemon, a cigar and a candle. Choosing your own needs scripts on; the twelve pieces below need nothing.

Editions of 25

The twelve

Twelve tables the house laid itself. Giclée prints on canvas from $1,800, numbered out of 25, and a paper proof of each at $650.

The genre

Every trophy, beside a lemon.

In Haarlem and Amsterdam in the 1600s, Pieter Claesz and Willem Kalf painted the expensive things of their day, a silver cup, a Chinese bowl, a peeled lemon, and set a pocket watch or a guttered candle among them. The pictures sold to the people who owned the cups. Everyone understood the joke, and they hung it in the dining room.

Vanitas paints the cups of now. Every maker on the table is invented, from Maison Néant, the house of nothing, to Cire Perdue, lost wax, because the objects are real and the brands would be someone else’s. About the house.