Baroque

Baroque enjoys decoration. Its roots may lie in historic pattern, but there is no attempt to reproduce a particular reference. Instead, familiar ideas of flourish, symmetry and repetition find their way into something looser and distinctly contemporary.

The generous scale of the repeat changes everything. Rather than concentrating detail into a small motif, the pattern spreads out across the surface. Curves open into larger forms, while areas of colour give the composition room to breathe. There is richness here, certainly, but also a surprising amount of space.

That scale feels particularly interesting in 10mm glass mosaic. Hundreds of small tesserae build something far larger than themselves. Their regular grid provides an underlying order, while the pattern appears to move freely across it. The contrast between those two ideas gives Baroque much of its character.

Pressed glass also brings a freshness to the decorative language. Gloss, colour and slight surface texture replace the heavier materials associated with historic ornament. Consequently, the reference to the past remains just that: a reference.

Baroque sits somewhere between ornament and abstraction. Look for historical echoes and they are certainly there. Ignore them, and it works simply as a confident arrangement of shape, colour and repetition.

Perhaps decoration doesn’t always need reinventing. Sometimes it just needs a different context.

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