Laurids Gallée, 2025
STACK FISHIES
Collector work
DKK 33,000
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This series explores the sculptural weight and symbolic legacy of the three materials - marble, bronze, and glass - historically associated with permanence, power, and opulence.
Lead time: 6 weeks
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Includes a signed certificate of authenticity confirming edition and provenance.
- Artist
- Laurids Gallée
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Glass
- Dimensions
- 140 x 96 x 360 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
The work
Rather than reaffirming traditional uses, the pieces aim to transform the iconography tied to these materials. Drawing on some of the oldest sculptural processes— carving, shaping, casting - the work departs from classical representations of idealized bodies and proposes a visual language that is stylized, surreal, and emotionally charged.
In ‘Meld Fishies’, ‘Morph Horsies’, and ‘Stack Fishies’, the forms are inflated, primitive, and hybrid. Shapes of horses and fishes blend into one another, their outlines thickened, their identities blurred.
The resulting figures appear fused and sometimes comically, sometimes grotesquely, evoking a sense of tragic absurdity. Beneath the playful exterior lies a reflection on how the animal form is both glorified and exploited. Through this fusion of ancient technique and contemporary sensibility the work references the past while speaking to the present.
Materials & making
Mouth-blown glass
Glass is made in minutes and cooled for hours. Molten at over a thousand degrees, it is gathered, blown and shaped while it moves, a material that records the breath and timing of the person making it. No two pieces cool exactly alike.
- Material
- Glass
- Dimensions
- 140 x 96 x 360 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
01
Gathering
Molten glass is gathered from the furnace onto a blowing iron at working temperature.
02
Blowing and shaping
The glassblower inflates and turns the gather, shaping it by hand and tool while it is still soft.
03
Forming
The piece is worked toward its final form; colour, wall and profile are set before the glass stiffens.
04
Annealing
Finished glass is cooled slowly over hours in a controlled oven so it settles free of internal stress.
Made at
Holmegaard
Denmark · Est. 1825
Holmegaard has made glass in Denmark since 1825 and remains one of Scandinavia's most storied glassworks. Each piece is mouth-blown and shaped by hand, continuing a craft tradition central to Danish design.
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The artist
Laurids Gallée
Rotterdam, Netherlands · Design, Furniture, Lighting, Resin Objects
Laurids Gallée is an Austrian designer based in Rotterdam who briefly studied anthropology before graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2015. He subsequently worked in the studio of Dutch designer Chris Kabel before opening Studio Laurids Gallée in Rotterdam in 2017.
His work — most notably the Tralucid and Metropolis collections of resin furniture — bridges traditional craftsmanship and contemporary manufacturing, characterised by a playfulness that foregrounds material over pure functionality. His designs have been presented in collaboration with Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci, among others.
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- Artist
- Laurids Gallée
- Title
- STACK FISHIES
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Glass
- Dimensions
- 140 x 96 x 360 mm.
- Edition size
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Provenance
- First sale, Edition Solenne
- Lead time
- 6 weeks
- Certificate
- Signed certificate of authenticity included
- Returns
- Made to order. Sales are final once production begins; contact us within 7 days if the work arrives damaged.
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