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A newly completed fiberglass decorative sculpture has come out of the Xinyesheng Sculpture workshop as a branded storefront centerpiece for Fistak Kaffe, a pistachio-coffee concept preparing to open a location in the United States. The design stacks four oversized pistachio shells, each split open to reveal a bright green interior, into a twisting tower topped by a splashing coffee cup carrying the Fistak Kaffe logo. The production video follows the piece from its digital 3D design through mold-cast fiberglass construction to the glossy, fully branded sculpture ready for shipment.
For a coffee brand built around pistachio flavor, a sculpture like this does double duty as both storefront signage and a photo-friendly landmark. Placed outside or inside a new location, it gives customers an immediate, physical cue to what the shop specializes in before they read a single word of the menu.
The sculpture begins as a detailed 3D digital model, built to solve two design problems at once: making a stack of pistachio shells read clearly as pistachios at large scale, and giving the composition enough visual energy to work as a storefront eye-catcher rather than a static prop. The solution ties the two together through motion, the shells appear to twist and balance on top of one another, while the coffee splashing dramatically out of the cup at the very top pulls the eye upward along the full height of the piece.
Working through the design digitally also allowed the team to plan exactly where the Fistak Kaffe branding would sit, the cup surface and the base drum both carry the logo and tagline, so that the artwork functions as recognizable signage as much as a sculptural centerpiece, readable from a distance outside a new storefront.
Once the design is finalized, a mold is built from the master pattern and used to cast the sculpture in fiberglass-reinforced plastic. In the video, the raw cast piece appears in its early gray, unfinished state, the full stack of pistachio shells and the coffee cup already correctly proportioned and joined, but still showing the flat, chalky surface of freshly demolded fiberglass before any finishing work begins.
Producing the piece as a one-piece mold-cast structure, rather than assembling separate cast sections, keeps the seams between the stacked shells clean and continuous, which matters for a design where the illusion of one form balancing on the next needs to hold up to close inspection outside a storefront.
After the fiberglass shell is removed from the mold, the raw casting still carries mold lines, minor surface irregularities, and the dull, uneven texture typical of freshly cast resin. Workers sand down the seams and high spots across the pistachio shells and cup, smoothing the transitions between the interlocking forms so that the final painted surface reads as one continuous sculpted object rather than several molded pieces joined together.
This sanding and polishing stage is also where the fine details, the splayed coffee splash at the top, the thin ridge lines along each pistachio shell, are cleaned up and sharpened, since any softness left in the raw casting becomes far more visible once the glossy paint finish is applied.
The finished sculpture takes on its full color only after a baked-on paint process. In the completed piece, the pistachio shells shift from a flat gray casting to a rich, glossy amber shell with a bright green interior, while the coffee cup is finished in cream with precise gold rim detailing and the full-color Fistak Kaffe logo applied to both the cup and the base drum.
Baking the paint onto the fiberglass surface produces a harder, more durable finish than an air-dried coat, which is important for a storefront piece that will be handled, photographed, and exposed to regular foot traffic and, depending on placement, outdoor weather. The high-gloss result also makes the sculpture read as a polished, professional brand object rather than a simple decorative prop.
Fiberglass-reinforced plastic is a practical choice for a storefront piece like this one for several reasons. It is far lighter than a comparable sculpture in stone or metal, which simplifies shipping internationally and positioning inside or outside a retail space. It also accepts a wide range of paint finishes, from the glossy amber and gold seen here to precise, sharp-edged logo application, which matters when a sculpture needs to double as branded signage.
For a new business opening a physical location, a mold-cast fiberglass sculpture also offers repeatability: the same mold can be used to produce additional units for future store openings, keeping the brand's signature centerpiece consistent across locations.
Xinyesheng Sculpture is a China-based sculpture manufacturer and custom design metal statue supplier with 13 years of experience in sculpture creation. Its R&D and design team has more than a decade of experience and works across stainless steel mirror-finish sculptures, marble works, weathering steel pieces, bronze casting, fiberglass sculpture, and tombstone artistry, integrating design, production, installation, and after-sales service into a single project process.
The Fistak Kaffe sculpture reflects this workflow applied to a commercial branding project: a digital design built around both visual appeal and clear logo placement, one-piece mold-cast fiberglass construction, careful sanding and polishing after demolding, and a baked-on paint finish that renders the brand's colors and logo with precision. The same process supports custom projects reaching public squares, campuses, hospitality venues, and, as with this piece, new retail storefronts opening in international markets.
The quality of a mold-cast fiberglass sculpture built for branding purposes depends on more than an accurate mold. The digital design has to resolve where logos and text will sit before casting begins, since adjusting branding placement after the mold is built is far more difficult than correcting it in the 3D model. The mold itself needs to reproduce fine surface detail, ridge lines, splash forms, sharp edges, cleanly enough that sanding and polishing can refine rather than rebuild those details.
Paint application is often the stage that determines whether a piece looks like professional signage or an unfinished prop. Even color coverage across large glossy surfaces, crisp logo edges, and a durable baked-on finish all depend on careful surface preparation before painting begins. The Fistak Kaffe sculpture illustrates how these stages come together, from an early 3D render to a finished, one-piece fiberglass artwork ready to represent the brand at a new storefront in the United States.
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