The following vignette I made from vintage family sporting memorabilia, books and letters, it was used by Safari Club International for convention advertising.
vintage safari vignette by Rita Schimpff for Heritage Game Mounts
Rita Schimpff of Heritage Game Mounts next to ‘Tusk’ by John Banovich at convention
African Animals displayed with natural linen and an ornate panel of oak leaves & acorns – all by Heritage Game Mounts
The Safari Lifestyle – Vintage & Re-purposed with Linen
The Safari Lifestyle is alive and well at Heritage Game Mounts. Elegant vintage horns are re-purposed with the purpose of entertaining linen and toile!
Safari Lifestyle- Reedbok mounted on Toile linen on Heritage Game Mounts: Legacy PanelSafari Lifestyle by Heritage Game Mounts – vintage horns re-purposed elegantly with linen
Recently while showing in Holiday Boutiques in Houston and San Antonio, I had the opportunity to visit with some very creative Texans – with unique finds for the sporting style in all of us.
Having time to visit with these talented designers put their art in such a personal light – I had to share.
Clint Orms, a renowned silversmith who works out of Ingram, TX with designs so fresh – he might have just stepped out of the fishing stream.
Sterling silver and gold trout buckle – Martin 1819.
The Safari lifestyle is represented with several Big 5 offerings – my favorite below – look close at the elephant skin on the buckle set.
Another African Big 5 – featuring a drop lock Westley Richards. Clint works in sterling, rose and yellow gold to create handsome works of art.
It was such a pleasure to visit with Clint and Jim and share some fly fishing tales, and marvel over one buckle with a tiny, real bead head nymph on it! Clint offers so much more…ladies fashions too. Visit http://www.ClintOrms.com
Another new friend from Houston is Gardner Landry who makes a fabulous 100 percent 3.5 ounce linen camp shirt with an original hand-dyed pocket – called The Sessanta Camp Shirt.
Whether you are a sporting participant or spectator this shirt marries minimum weight with maximum style.Each shirt features an original hand-dyed pocket – no two are exactly the same.
The Sessanta is a contemporary interpretation of the Dolce Vita-era Italian shirt worn by Gardner’s grandfather in the 1960’s.
A long sleeve version of the Camp Shirt is also available and I think looks terrific for the ladies as a tunic with the sleeves rolled to 3/4 length and worn over skinny jeans.
Rita Schimpff with Heritage Game Mounts has a new offering to pair with her vintage and new antler mounts – the German Shooting Target. These colorful lithographs pat’d in 1897, were used in Germany for small bore target practice. Rita has reproduced them and put them on a hand striped pine disk.
Use them alone on an easle or two or three together paired with antlers or art.
The series includes the Stag, the Hare, the Boar, the Bear, a Chamois and a Roe Deer in either 6 3/4″ or 8 1/2″.
