The soul of the house
If you are moving into a new apartment, there is one thing you can’t ignore. Of course, carefully choice of furniture, wallpaper and other important details that will make your house unique and remarkable is highly important. But you can’t say that your home has a soul if you don’t have fancy decorations adding charm and comfort to your interior. In most cases, people decorate the walls of their rooms with paintings and photos, but there is one large category of interior décor that is often underestimated: sculpture. Today, there is a wide assortment of figurines to any taste and you can pick any theme you like. Today one of the most popular choices is cat sculpture. More and more people adorn their apartments with graceful and funny images of these cute pets. If you, too, adore cats and don’t mind adding a nice cat figurine to your room design, here are five wonderful examples of feline sculptures to inspire you!
Famous cats in stone
- - Yoshkin-cat in Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, is a representative of all happy cats in the world. Sitting on a newspaper spread over a wooden bench with his legs rakishly crossed, he is grinning to onlookers crowding around him all day long. His posture and content face say that he’s got everything he needs to be happy.
- - Cat by Fernando Botero in Barcelona, Spain is one of the main city attractions, and every visitor coming here wants to take a look at this prominent cat figure. His massive black body exceeds the height of an average human and the proportions are obviously oversized. Bulging eyes, short whiskers and a weird face expression make him a very curious piece of street art.
- - Cat made of white plastic forks in Kiev, Ukraine, is a compulsive stop for every tourist. This cute white ball of bristles is attached to a tree trunk, with a pair of green eyes and a round pink nose completing the resemblance. A cat figure like this is pretty easy to DIY, and if you like handmade things, you can make such decoration by yourself.
- - Cat in Repose from Portland, USA, is a big marble-grey feline sculpture that captures your attention once you see it. Lying on the sidewalk with his eyes closed, immobile and unruffled amidst urban fuss, he seems to impersonate the philosophy of Buddhism.
- - Tombili from Istanbul, Turkey, portrays a cat well-known to anyone who surfs the internet. This meme animal became a national symbol and was immortalized in bronze, so everyone can now touch this page of history on a Turkish pavement.