Display Sculpture in Your Home
If you have beautiful, sculptural art pieces and don’t know how or where to use them in your home, read on for my tips.

This metallic female torso stands between the dining and living areas, visually delineating the spaces without being a wall or room divider. It allows light through, creating interest throughout the day as the sun moves.

In the same dining room, we’re using a textural pendant light, which resembles a sculpture in its composition, but lighter and with a feeling of motion. You can also see the relationship between the torso sculpture and the pendant light. Notice that the pendant light repeats the orangey-yellow visible in the painting next to the torso.

Hanging sculpture that’s light enough on a wall is another simple display method. Here a metal wall sculpture forms the shape of a flock of birds in my client’s small-but-mighty San Francisco condo.

The original sculpture by artist C. Jere is made from iron and casts a dramatic shadow of birds in flight.

In my client’s high-ceiling city loft, we display two pierced brass teardrop-shaped lights as sculptures near a grouping of long hanging glass pendant lights.

The lights hang higher than the teardrops, allowing the sculptures to be visible from multiple locations around the space, drawing attention towards the fireplace in the corner.
What pieces do you have that you’d like to display? Can I help you design a space to showcase them?
Kimball Starr designs for artistic homes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Lake Tahoe. Contact her today for a remote or socially-distant in-person consultation.