Bull & Stein
Early in his existence man transformed the gifts of nature and created objects in his own image. Man’s imagination and creativity led him to shape vases and clay pots, he decorated temples and churches with bronze statues and used glass jewels ornaments to seduce.
All over the world, on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates, from the Nile through China and the Indies, the techniques have improved and brought unique masterpieces to life. This know-how has been passed down from generation to generation to the present day.
Today, artists still shape hand-blown glass artwork, craftsmen hand shape and polish BULL & STEIN bronze apples, cultivating a thousand-year old tradition.
BULL & STEIN sustains this heritage, travelling the world, searching for craftsmen who perpetuate traditional, ancestral techniques: Artists able to express feelings that reach the heart of the child in us – masters in their field, who look for beauty and purity that can touch the soul and set our senses in motion – Sculptors who leave the imprint of their fingers on their artwork, such a signature – making them unique.
BULL & STEIN calls on and commissions the best factories in Brasil, Portugal, India and Hungary – centres of traditional craftsmanship.
WHO THEY ARE
Exclusively for BULL & STEIN, Lisa Pappon, artist and designer from São Paulo / Brazil, creates inimitable ceramic apple sculptures as a universal symbol reflecting desire and voluptuousness. The artist utilizes nature’s gifts such as clay, organic pigments and precious stones, gold or silver. She reinterprets nature’s mystic fruit in oversized exaggerated ceramic apple sculptures up to 180 cm in diametre (70 inch). In her work, Lisa Pappon has long sought an icon that unites all peoples regardless of their origin. The apple is a symbol that spans the globe and has recurred in the most remote and diverse cultures for millennia. Lisa Pappon has realized her cultural vision in the form of giant ceramic apple sculptures. Lisa Pappon lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. Lisa Pappon continuously develops her beguiling ceramic apple sculptures with love and perfection.
Born 1964 in São Paulo, Brazil. Marcus lives and works in Porto, Portugal. By founder and CEO Marcus Bull, Brazilian-German. The main idea of the fruit sculptures BULL & STEIN: «It is the big - exaggerated size that interests us, in order to make the spectators stunned: To surprise, to move, to impress, to captivate them and to highlight the natural beauty. To enrich everyday life, often urban to reconnect people with nature and bring them back to the earth, and at the same time to find a global language which communicates to all social classes, religions, cultures, ages and origins, which therefore connects people to the world through a simple and understandable symbolism which carries the innocent joy of living.
