Decorative Arts
Music Box
Frame for Diogenese and Alexander
Bronze Frame by Duccio Banchi
Choice of Hercules Frame
Painted Door
Design for a Frame for the Pietà
Design for American Academy in Rome Bookcase
Intarsia Allegorical Portrait
Intarsia Self-portrait
Folding Screen
Articulating Drafting Table
Library Bookcase Pilaster
Madonna and Child
Balthasar, Mary and the Christ Child
Rest on the Fligth into Egypt
Copy of Ludovica Albertoni by Bernini
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Working with outstanding craftspeople like Carlo Puccini and Ducio Banchi of Florence, Daniele Parasecolo in Todi, and Thomas Lamb Heller, David Mayernik designs, and sometimes models, innovative iterations of classical decorative objects and furniture.
Baroque Opera Sets
Sets for performances of operas by Charpentier, Purcell, and Telemann for the Haymarket Opera Company of Chicago
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For several seasons I painted sets for the Haymarket Opera Company of Chicago's historically informed productions of Baroque operas—Charpentier's Orphée, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Telemann's Pimpinone, Charpentier's Actéeon. It was such a pleasure to collaborate with a talented team of musicians, stage directors, and costume designers. My sets, painted on rotating periaktoi (which the Roman writer Vitruvius describes), evoked the period character of each opera.
