{"id":186,"date":"2010-09-09T01:28:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T01:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2010-09-09T01:28:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T01:28:46","slug":"sculptures-lost-wax-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/blog\/furniture-craftsmanship\/furniture-construction\/sculptures-lost-wax-casting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculptures &amp; Lost Wax Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered in antiquity by the Greeks and Romans,  <strong>lost wax casting<\/strong> remains the preferred process of modern day jewelers,  sculptors and artisans for crafting custom art objects in metal.<\/p>\n<p>The  process begins when our craftsman meticulously carves a wax model of  the object and envelops it in fine concrete, which captures every curve  and line of the piece. Once this mold is dry, the craftsman fills it  with molten metal, such as <a title=\"bronze\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/craftsmanship\/bronzes.php\">bronze<\/a> or brass. The wax model melts and drains out, or is \u201clost,\u201d through a  hole in the concrete.<\/p>\n<p>When cool, the mold is cracked open to reveal a  finely cast metal object identical to its wax predecessor. Meticulous  details are added before the piece is polished.  Finally, the artist  skillfully applies a custom finish by hand.  With lost cast waxing,  artisans can create <a title=\"accents at Colorado Style\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/accents.php\">decorative objects<\/a>, <a title=\"decorative hardware\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/craftsmanship\/decorative-hardware.php\">hardware<\/a> and mountings without compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a title=\"Bronze Sculpture\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/accents.php\">lost wax casting sculptures<\/a> are truly works of art and a labor of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered in antiquity by the Greeks and Romans, lost wax casting remains the preferred process of modern day jewelers, sculptors and artisans for crafting custom art objects in metal. The process begins when our craftsman meticulously carves a wax model of the object and envelops it in fine concrete, which captures every curve and line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[120,448],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-construction","tag-bronze","tag-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coloradostyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}