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"Canes and walking sticks made of unusual materials"
"A new virtual exhibition cycle dedicated to the materials of which
canes and walking sticks are made"
Paris, 6 May 2008 - The virtual exhibition "Canes and walking sticks made of unusual
materials" is newly launched at the Segas Gallery website. Created by i.S.k.i.v. Ltd from the
Segas Gallery archives, this new exhibition opens a virtual cycle dedicated to the materials of
which canes and walking sticks are made.
Browsing the exhibition, you will discover that myriads of materials, all more
eccentric and bizarre than the other one, were used to make canes and walking sticks, from
hippopotamus skin to turtoise shell, from snake skin to wovenwild grass fibres and yarns, or the
rhino horn, the papier maché, the wrought iron, the glass, or the cabgage. We learn as well
that in former times, a specialized craftsman who was called "horn flatener" worked the horns, or
as well how the bygone herdsmen delt with the horns of their animals to make them better looking,
and many other little known facts.
Rare walking sticks and antique canes for collecting are Galerry Segas
specialty. Walking sticks expert, in Paris from 1975, Gilbert Segas is a history lover and Gallery
Segas are an endless source of history, images and documents.
Canes and walking sticks made of unusual materials:
- Famous cabbageWalking stick
- Canes made of wovenwild grass fibres and yarns
- Canes made of wood washers and paper washers
- Canes made of date palm cluster
- Walking sticks made of palm tree and palm stem
- Canes made of matches marquetry
- Marquetry and inlaid canes
- Lacquered canes
- Mother of pearl adorned canes
- Postage stamps marquetry shaft
- Snake skin's walking sticks
- Cane made of snake spinal column
- Cane made of hippopotamus skin
- Canes made of horns
- Horn washer's walking stick
- Shark spinal column canes
- A cane made of human skin and bones
- Cane made of Narwhal's Horn
- Wrought iron cane
- Spiral twist wrought iron cane
- Glass canes
- Canes made of glass pearls
- Celluloid canes
- Lucite cane signed Degani
- Your contact at the Gallery:
- Mr Gilbert Segas
- - Tel: +33 (0)1 47 70 89 65
- - Segas Gallery- 34, Passage Jouffroy - 75009 PARIS
- - close to the Musée Grévin.
- Your contact for the website:
- Mrs Irene Silberstein
- Telephone: +44 (0)701-702-6816
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