original decor

This charming wall hook is the original creation of Haitian artisans, working with the Caribbean Craft cooperative. The hook is crafted from papier mache and makes a great addition to an entryway or kid's room. Caribbean Craft strives to create stable, sustainable incomes for individual artisans and grow business opportunities for isolated artisan communities throughout Haiti.

Inspired by the famous La Calavera Catrina etchings of José Posada, this original sculpture is a delight. Mexico's Marina Lozano crafts the statuette by hand from papier mache, painting it with careful detail.

Marina Lozano of Mexico works in papier mache to create this delightful catrina statuette. The skeletal sculpture is elegantly attired, with flowers in her hair and one in her hand. The artisan designs the figurine after the original "La Calavera Catrina", a zinc etching created by the artist José Guadalupe Posada in Mexico around 1910. Posada created the character, a female skeleton with an elegant hat, as a satirical portrait of Mexican natives who aspired to European style and denied their own heritage. The catrina has since become an emblem of Mexico's Day of the Dead celebration and a popular folk art subject.

Crafted and painted by hand, a ginger orange rabbit is really a decorative box. Fida Hussain carries on his family's tradition of Indian papier mache art with this very original design.

Petite and lovely, this finely-crafted decorative box is perfect for small personal treasures. Mohammad Hussain Baba works in the style of Kashmir, crafting the container of weeping willow wood. He covers it with papier mache in an art form that originated in Persia in the 15th century and meticulously paints the golden floral images by hand on the deep red surface. They are protected with a coat of lacquer.

The lavish leaves of the chinar, or Old World sycamore flaunt their bright beauty against a background of buttercup yellow. Sajad crafts a diminutive decorative box, perfect for small personal treasures. He works in the style of Kashmir, crafting the container of weeping willow wood. He then covers it with papier mache in an art form that originated in Persia in the 15th century, and paints the colorful leaves by hand. They are protected with a coat of lacquer.