Casey Parlette
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Casey Parlette
Casey Parlette's page had no description on it before this one. Twelve pieces are live, $2,400 to $35,280, median $14,400 — and the widest material range of any sculptor we carry: carved wood, forged and welded bronze, inlaid abalone shell, and on one piece, steel and slate with...
- In this collection
- 12 works
Casey Parlette
Casey Parlette
$5,400.00
School of mahi-mahi Size: 3 1/2’ to 4’ long, approximately 14” high and stands approximately 12” off the wall it’s displayed on. Material: Maple, poplar, bronze, abalone Method: Hammered, forged, welded, carved Mahi-mahi are among the most beautiful fish in the ocean and...
Casey Parlette
$15,120.00 - $35,280.00
School of mahi mahi Size: 7.5'X 3' (for a school of 3) Material: Maple, poplar, bronze, abalone Method: Hammered, forged, welded, carved Mahi mahi are among the most beautiful fish in the ocean and often form large schools. As they mature, the males...
Casey Parlette
$3,000.00
Chambered nautilus Size: 15 X 18 Material: Various, including bronze, curly redwood, manzanita burl, quillo bordon Method: Hammered, forged, welded, carved Considered to be a living fossil, nautiluses are ancient relatives of squid. Unlike squid, they have a shell, which has a series...
Casey Parlette
$7,200.00
Hermit crab Size: 18" X 11" X 8" Material: Acacia wood, bronze Method: Hammered, forged, welded, carved A hermit crab is always on the lookout for the next best shell. All renditions of Finders Keepers feature a welded bronze hermit crab in a...
Casey Parlette
$4,080.00
Barracuda school Size: 28 inches long Material: Curly redwood, bronze Method: Carved, forged, hammered, welded These barracuda sculptures, made of redwood and bronze, strive to capture the elegance and fluid curves of a swimming school of these predatory fish. Each barracuda is...
Casey Parlette
$10,800.00 - $25,200.00
Barracuda school Size: 10' X 3.5' Material: Curly redwood, bronze Method: Carved, forged, hammered, welded These barracuda sculptures, made of redwood and bronze, strive to capture the elegance and fluid curves of a swimming school of these predatory fish. Each barracuda is mounted...
Casey Parlette
$5,040.00
Wahoo Size: 36 inches long Material: Curly maple, bronze, brass, stainless steel, poplar wood Method: Hammered, forged, welded, carved This piece captures the streamlined power and elegance of wahoo, which are among the fastest fish in the ocean. The bodies are carved...
Casey Parlette
$14,400.00 - $33,600.00
Wahoo school Size: 90" x 29" (at 3 fish) Material: Curly maple, bronze, brass, stainless steel, poplar wood Method: Hammered, forged, welded, carved This piece captures the streamlined power and elegance of wahoo, which are among the fastest fish in the ocean. The bodies...
Casey Parlette
$5,400.00 - $10,800.00
California spiny lobster Large Size: 32" X 24" X 12" Small Size: 22" x 12" x 6" Material: Bronze Method: Forged, hammered, welded Giant lobsters were once common in Southern California's coastal waters. Estimated to be well over sixty years old at maturity,...
Casey Parlette
$2,400.00
Trilobite Cost: 2,000 Size: 17" X 17" Material: Steel, textured copper, wenge wood, slate Method: Hammered, forged, welded 500 million years ago the trilobite was one of the most widespread creatures on the planet. There were thousands of different species inhabiting nearly every...
Casey Parlette
$6,000.00
Chambered nautilus Size: 3 X 24 Material: Various, including bronze, curly redwood, manzanita burl,Śćquillo bordon Method: Hammered, forged, welded, carved Considered to be a living fossil, nautiluses are ancient relatives of squid. Unlike squid, they have a shell, which has a series...
Casey Parlette
$6,000.00
Hermit crab Size: 11 inches across x 7 inches tall Material: Acacia wood, bronze Method: Hammered, forged, welded, carved A hermit crab is always on the lookout for the next best shell. All renditions of Finders Keepers feature a welded bronze hermit crab...
Casey Parlette's page had no description on it before this one. Twelve pieces are live, $2,400 to $35,280, median $14,400 — and the widest material range of any sculptor we carry: carved wood, forged and welded bronze, inlaid abalone shell, and on one piece, steel and slate with no bronze at all. The subjects go past fish, too — a hermit crab, a chambered nautilus, a spiny lobster, and a trilobite are all in the current lineup.
Built by hand, not cast alone
Most sculptors we carry work in bronze only; Parlette starts with carved wood — curly maple for "Wahoo," curly redwood for "Barracuda," quilted maple inlaid with abalone for "Mahi Mahi" — then hammers, forges, and welds bronze for the head, teeth, or fins, finished with polished stainless steel eyes. "Finders Keepers," a hermit crab, pairs a welded bronze crab with a carved wood shell, acacia and walnut in the version we carry. "Ancient Mariner" builds a nautilus shell from exotic woods like manzanita burl around a forged bronze body. "Trilobite" breaks from all of it: hammered steel, textured copper, wenge wood, and slate. The fish pieces come sized by count — three, four, five, up to seven — and mount flat to a wall.
"Old Timer" depicts a California spiny lobster in two sizes — 32 by 24 by 12 inches at large, 22 by 12 by 6 inches at small — with each segment of the shell individually shaped and welded rather than cast as one piece, the way a real lobster's armor actually grows plate by plate. "Ancient Mariner" comes in a matching pair of scales, a large version at roughly 24 inches and a smaller tabletop version around 15 by 18, both built the same way: a forged bronze nautilus body inside a shell carved from exotic wood.
How these get ordered
Five of the twelve pieces currently run $5,000 to $10,000, and another four sit between $2,500 and $5,000 — this collection leans toward mid-size single pieces rather than large multi-fish schools. None of the variants here are tracked against a running stock count, so choosing a piece comes down to size and configuration rather than watching a number count down. "Old Timer" and "Ancient Mariner" each come in two built-in scales rather than one, and the school pieces — Wahoo, Barracuda, Mahi Mahi — are ordered by fish count, three up to seven, so sizing is really part of placing the order.
The weight of a welded bronze head and the grain running through a hand-bent piece of maple are things you register holding the piece, not looking at a photo of it. If you're trying to fill an oddly proportioned stretch of wall with a school of these, that's worth a call before you order — we can talk through sizing.
— Steve Schlag, founder, Dolphin Galleries
