Discover a Secret World Right Next Door! Find an astonishing array of antique and new furniture, sculpture and pottery suitable for indoor and outdoor use, rare architectural details, and uncommon examples of world art that can only be classified as extinct. All these items are authentic, and all will be on sale as Primitive hosts its first warehouse sale in 8 years!
The Dogon people live in West Africa on the Bandiagara Escarpment, a long cliff running along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. Google Dogon "Creation Myth" and you will get 1000s of hits detailing a complex web of history, mythology, fact, and fantasy. Pull a single thread and you will hear one version of the myth. Pull a second and you will hear another, but if you keep pulling a common story will emerge. The Dogon people believe . . .
Who is the greatest artist of all time? Michelangelo, Picasso, Van Gogh? Perhaps you're thinking Rembrandt, Matisse or Monet. No matter who you pick, it's likely they lived more or less within the last 500 years. However, one artist has been active thru all-time. And that artist is called "earth". Time is one advantage earth has over other artists. While a painting or sculpture may take...
Walk into PRIMITIVE, and perched atop a display counter, you'll find an antique censer or incense burner. Although censers are a staple in Chinese art, this one is thoroughly unique. For it is longer than it is deep and shows twin dragons bearing the bowl or burner on their backs. It's appropriate to feature it here in 2024, the year of the dragon. In Chinese mythology...
Walk onto Primitive's 4th floor, and you'll quickly find evidence of a very robust contemporary art program. Just past the main gallery is a bedroom setting and above the bed is a painting by the renowned artist Brian Sindler. Although Sindler is an award winning plein air artist or landscape painter...
Step off the elevator on PRIMITIVE's 2nd Floor and turn right. Go around the corner and turn left. You will discover a framed Baby Carrier. Created by the Miao Minority People in Guizhou Province, China. Grandmothers, Mothers, and Daughters work together to create multi-generational textiles...
In the den on PRIMITIVE'S 4th floor, is a hand-painted movie poster. It is an advertisement for the African Movie "Evil Thing". Found in Ghana along Africa's Gold Coast, the poster was exhibited in many villages...
In Place at Primitive's mezzanine, in the Five Elements Library, sits a desert rose. A collectible mineral specimen composed of Selenite was found deep in the Gobi desert. It traveled 7,000 miles to be displayed as an authentic museum-quality example of Natural Art.
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