Joe lurato DESIDERATA Wooden Hand Fan

Artist collab & artwork driven

A wooden folding hand fan featuring Joe Iurato’s DESIDERATA artwork printed across the fan leaf. The scene shows a seated guitarist and a dog set against a vivid violet to magenta to red sunset gradient with radiating beams and small horizon silhouettes. Natural wood ribs keep it light in hand, while the graphic stays crisp when opened wide.

FAQs

1) What artwork is on the fan?
A grayscale scene of a seated guitarist with an acoustic guitar and a dog centered in front, set against a vivid purple–pink–red sunset gradient with radiating light beams and horizon silhouettes.

2) Is this fan wood or fabric?
This is a wooden folding hand fan with natural light-wood ribs/handles. The printed artwork appears on the fan leaf above the ribs.

3) Does the fan feel more like a souvenir or a design object?
More design object—clean illustration, intentional color blocking, and a composition that’s built to fit the fan’s arc instead of feeling randomly cropped.

4) Is it more art piece or practical fan?
Both. It’s fully functional, but the art treatment makes it something you’ll leave out on a table instead of hiding in a drawer.

5) What kind of style does the illustration lean toward?
Graphic realism with a mural/comic-adjacent clarity—bold outlines, controlled shading, and a strong scene-setting color field.