The day lets go slowly here, and Held in Afterglow is the hour when the garden is still warm but the light has already gone soft. At the end of the evening, the glass stays lit while the sky cools above it.
The Jewel Box rises at the center of the frame, a stepped glass front that holds the last of the daylight. The eye starts at the lit facade, drops to the single thread of the fountain, and then moves out across the water through the ring of giant Victoria lily pads. Their copper rims lead back toward the building. The sky grades from a clear blue overhead to peach at the horizon, so the building is the brightest thing in a quiet frame.
The picture sits between Ernst Haas's feeling for color as atmosphere and Wim Wenders's patience with architecture left alone at the edge of the day. Nothing is announced. The architecture, the water and the sky share the same low light.
Design & Styling: Held in Afterglow suits hotel lobbies, boutique hospitality spaces and executive suites, where cool blues and warm peach set a calm, unhurried mood. In healthcare settings such as waiting rooms, infusion suites and patient corridors, the symmetry and soft light give the eye somewhere restful to land. At home it works over a console in an entry, a dining room or a quiet reading space, especially with plaster, pale oak or sage and brass.
Curated Pairings:
Blue Interval: Another St. Louis glass building, where drifting clouds dissolve into a mirrored facade and architecture becomes color and sky, the abstract counterpart to the Jewel Box held in the same cool blues.
The Garden's Glow: A macro of a single fire-lit blossom against deep shadow, the saturated, close-up answer to the soft peach light in Held in Afterglow.
Held Arch: A monochrome wide-angle study of the Gateway Arch rising over downtown St. Louis, the city's other great monument, in black and white where Held in Afterglow is all color.
Fine Art Presentation: Printed to order on Chromaluxe metal for the clearest glow in the glass and sky, or on TruLife acrylic with a low-glare or anti-glare surface where the room has windows. Framed and unframed paper prints are made on Photo Rag. Each print is made to order and signed.
Note: Custom and oversized photographic prints are available. Please contact the studio directly to discuss custom framing, matting, or specialized museum glass options.
The day lets go slowly here, and Held in Afterglow is the hour when the garden is still warm but the light has already gone soft. At the end of the evening, the glass stays lit while the sky cools above it.
The Jewel Box rises at the center of the frame, a stepped glass front that holds the last of the daylight. The eye starts at the lit facade, drops to the single thread of the fountain, and then moves out across the water through the ring of giant Victoria lily pads. Their copper rims lead back toward the building. The sky grades from a clear blue overhead to peach at the horizon, so the building is the brightest thing in a quiet frame.
The picture sits between Ernst Haas's feeling for color as atmosphere and Wim Wenders's patience with architecture left alone at the edge of the day. Nothing is announced. The architecture, the water and the sky share the same low light.
Design & Styling: Held in Afterglow suits hotel lobbies, boutique hospitality spaces and executive suites, where cool blues and warm peach set a calm, unhurried mood. In healthcare settings such as waiting rooms, infusion suites and patient corridors, the symmetry and soft light give the eye somewhere restful to land. At home it works over a console in an entry, a dining room or a quiet reading space, especially with plaster, pale oak or sage and brass.
Curated Pairings:
Blue Interval: Another St. Louis glass building, where drifting clouds dissolve into a mirrored facade and architecture becomes color and sky, the abstract counterpart to the Jewel Box held in the same cool blues.
The Garden's Glow: A macro of a single fire-lit blossom against deep shadow, the saturated, close-up answer to the soft peach light in Held in Afterglow.
Held Arch: A monochrome wide-angle study of the Gateway Arch rising over downtown St. Louis, the city's other great monument, in black and white where Held in Afterglow is all color.
Fine Art Presentation: Printed to order on Chromaluxe metal for the clearest glow in the glass and sky, or on TruLife acrylic with a low-glare or anti-glare surface where the room has windows. Framed and unframed paper prints are made on Photo Rag. Each print is made to order and signed.
Note: Custom and oversized photographic prints are available. Please contact the studio directly to discuss custom framing, matting, or specialized museum glass options.
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