Honoring People’s Treasures

I work with clients helping them find long forgotten gems in their homes and sell their high end items which keeps these pieces out of landfills and helps save the environment.

• My firm Ladyslippers allows me the freedom to demonstrate acts of kindness towards my clients. My compassionate understanding is not thought of as a weakness as it was in other industries I have worked in. In fact it’s just the opposite, as I feel it is truly one of my greatest strengths.

• Recently I worked with a client, helping her to clear out her deceased father’s house.  In the process, we found an unsigned painting.

• This unsigned painting was held for years in storage by my client and when she showed it to me I noticed the details and immediately knew it was Mid Century Modern.  I knew it had the look of Russian Icons but wasn’t sure. It took a fair amount of sleuthing to uncover the background of the piece. I heard about The Museum of Russian Icons existence in Massachusetts and spent the next day at the museum.   I was given direction by the museum curator who told me that, yes, in fact it was inspired by Russian Icons and gave me the religious interpretation as best she could and suggested I contact the church directly.   My client, Christa Lyons, gave me the church information and I was thrilled to find out the an organist who had known her father was still at the church in Brooklyn.  The church organist gave me the information on the artist and the title of the work.   The artist, Mr. Rambusch, had been involved in the restoration of the church after a fire as he is a litigical engineer.  Christa’s dad so impressed the artist that he gave him this work of art as a gift for his kindness and dedication.

• This mid century modern painting by Robert Rambusch takes its inspiration from ancient Russian Icons. He applied vivid colors and bold looks of the 60’s and 70’s along with incredible details of the Icons thus relating religion to the people of this century.

• In the painting St. John the Apostle is shown holding a bible which references the Book of Revelation 21 which reads “I saw the New Holy City”. The church depicted is that of St. John’s Church in Brooklyn, NY with the church name and date on the front tower.

• Robert Rambusch is a well know liturgical engineer and he had been involved in the restoration of 24 cathedrals in North America and hundreds of churches and monasteries including a restoration of St. John’s Church after a fire in the early 70’s. He is now in his 90’s and in an article “A Life Dedicated to Sacred Art” by Gonzaque Leroux, he describes his creative process as “based on his beliefs that ‘religious’ art cannot develop outside of the artistic life of it’s time”. The article explains that Mr. Rambusch was taught by a French Catholic philosopher, Jacques Maritan, who believes that ” we must allow art to speak to the people”.  The beholder is then naturally invited to open his or her own inner space in a quiet attitude, to enter into an inner dialogue with the artwork”. This painting does exactly that by drawing the viewer in with captivating color, details and imagery. A different message can be revealed each time one looks at the piece.

I love that I can help my clients discover the value of their treasure, whether it is monetary or sentimental.

Join Deborah at the Dream Factory Luncheon  on Oct 20th, 11:30-2 at St. Zepherin’s in Wayland.