8/3/10
6/26/10
Custom-made Art Furniture
Specific colors, dimensions, sketches and designs...
Convertible Table for a sailboat...
Custom-made Corner Hutch by JP FREY...
Custom-made Parsons Table of 13 Feet...
If you are interested in a commission, call us or send us an email!
Jean-Pierre FREY's Gallery: 1 809 523 2298
5/17/10
Furniture Finishing
All Jean-Pierre Frey furniture are made with recycled wood from the old destructed houses of the Dominican Republic.
Jean-Pierre Frey not only uses the wood of the houses, but also makes knobs for drawers out of the original door hardware, for example...
Thanks to his inner knowledge of colors, the simple and old pieces of wood become art furniture.
The multiple layers of luxurious varnish that are added to the furniture of Jean-Pierre Frey give them this fabulous glow.
5/10/10
A piece of the Caribbean Patrimony in your Home!
Jean-Pierre Frey gives new life to wood that housed it's owners loyally since the 1920s or 1930s and is now contained in fabulous pieces that are in many homes in Casa de Campo, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, Palm Beach, Miami, New York City, The Hamptons, Bogota, São Paulo , Buenos Aires, Paris, Milano...
Shipped worldwide
No matter where you are, in which part of the world you live, we ship Jean-Pierre Frey's Art Furniture and Fine Art worldwide!
Dinner Tables and Benches in the US, Paintings in Argentina, Full container of furniture in Bahamas, France, Canada, Puerto Rico... Everything is possible!
Let us know where you want to receive your pieces, and we offer you a safe solution.
Team of Craftsmen & Workshop
In his workshop in La Romana, JP Frey and his craftsmen first build a panel using the restored wood to then make dining room tables, shelvings, hutches, end, night and coffee tables, chairs, parsons tables...
All pieces are one of a kind, simply because of the different shades of colors occurring in the hundred-year-old wood.
5/8/10
Reinventing a Piece of the Caribbean History and lost Patrimony as Art
In 2005, living by the Cumayasa River, close to La Romana in the Dominican Republic, Jean-Pierre Frey was struck by the number of large pieces of drift wood scattered around its shores, which gave him the idea to begin making furniture for his first time in his life.
But because of its irregular shape, it limited the types of furniture he could make.
All that changed when a friend of him told him an old house in the city of La Romana was beeing torn down.
As fate would have it, it was years early during a visit to the country that he found the same house. Sitting on the porch in a rocking chair and shirtless was an older man.
"The house was really interesting, painted in pastel colors reminiscent of old Victorian Caribbean houses, and it was made for a perfect picture", Jean-Pierre Frey explains.
So last year when the house was demolished he bought the wood, loaded three trucks of wood boards and brought them to his house.
"What's interesting about the wood is that although it had this pastel blue color on the outside underneath there was a rainbow of colors", he says. Jean-Pierre FREY counted more than 10 coats of paint on some pieces!
First panel made with the old wood from the destructed Caribbean houses, recycled by Jean-Pierre FREY...
First vanity created by Jean-Pierre FREY, with the old wood from the destructed Caribbean houses...
Painting details
Would you like to know where to find or purchase the unique creations of Jean-Pierre Frey?
Do you want to order a special work of art made by Jean-Pierre FREY?
Contact us by email us or call us: 1 809 418 9153
To contact JP FREY's Gallery at the Marina Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic, Call: 1 809 523 2298
Painting techniques
Jean-Pierre Frey creates one-of-a-kind paintings on recycled wood.
The artist bases his work on collage techniques, adding a variety of recollected materials into his paintings (as metal, iron, screws, cables, driftwoods etc.).
5/6/10
Caribbean Paintings
Leaving in Florida where he owned a gallery, Jean-Pierre FREY decided to follow his love of sailing, which brought him to the island of the Dominican Republic.
Here, he found the inspiration and the freedom to return to painting.
Jean-Pierre FREY's current work is inspired by the local and real landscape of the Dominican Republic, the optimism and sunny disposition of its inhabitants...
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