Couturelle — Haute Couture of the City | Frank Kayser

COUTURELLE

80 × 120 cm · Ancient Olive

1.990,00 €

This image is not about a construction site. It is about proportion, drapery and the strange elegance that appears when raw function begins to behave like style. Broad fields of cream, ochre, grey and orange stand beside one another with the precision of a composed wardrobe. Soft tarpaulins fall over rigid structures like fabric over a body, while barriers and posts cut through the scene like seams, hems and graphic accents.

What might have been a temporary urban situation becomes an exercise in visual couture. Nothing here is decorative, yet everything feels dressed. The surfaces do not merely cover; they stage. COUTURELLE transforms scaffolding, fencing and tarpaulin into a study of line, balance and attitude — a work in which the city, for one fleeting moment, appears less built than tailored.

Completed for this format in Ancient Olive.

Eight centuries of quiet strength.

Mediterranean Olive Wood

THE MATERIAL

This olive wood comes from an approximately 800-year-old Mediterranean tree. Centuries of slow growth have formed an expressive grain and a warmth that no industrial surface could reproduce.

WHY THIS EDITION

For this edition, Ancient Olive was the natural conclusion: warm, singular and quietly marked by time.

THE COMPLETION

Each edition is individually crafted in Germany from carefully selected solid wood and completed with museum-quality glazing and conservation-grade materials. Built to preserve the work for generations.

MATERIAL ARCHIVE AO-801-158

EDITION 10 + 2 AP AVAILABLE

Signed and individually numbered. Each available format forms a separate edition. Once the stated edition is complete, that format is closed. Artist Proofs are recorded separately and are not part of the numbered edition.