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The OCTAEVO Fish Paper Vase features bold Mediterranean-inspired abstract patterns in a stylized fish shape. Fish Paper Vase 24,50€
The Janus Tote Bag by OCTAEVO: white organic cotton with a minimalist blue-line abstract face and gold cheeks. Janus Tote Bag 14,90€
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A Room with a View

A Room with a View - Octaevo

Golden light, classical forms and the painter David Ligare. On rooms that frame something worth looking at.

Change of season, change of tables. We created a series of images paying homage to one of our favourite contemporary realist painter, David Ligare (born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1945).

 

An OCTAEVO still life paying homage to the painter David Ligare

 

Ligare often focuses on the subject of the ancient Greek and Roman practices of giving thanks to the gods by offering them a portion of the “first-fruits” of their harvest. Ligare bathes his subjects in golden light and stages them in dramatic altar-like spaces that follow the ancient format of reverence and gratitude – gratitude for the bounty of the harvest and the sheer beauty of nature. We are obsessed! 

 

A second still life in the David Ligare homage series

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Occasional letters from the studio — new writing, new objects, and where the Mediterranean has taken us lately.

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