Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Apologies if I was a little random: I had just been looking at a large – and expensive – marquetry panel that had ...

NEW YORK -- Marquetry furniture, with its decorated surfaces, was reserved for the high and mighty in Europe, from the Renaissance to the 18th century. But in the United States in the 19th century, ...

Émile Gallé -- Louis Majorelle -- Middle ages -- Islamic influence -- Italian intarsia -- Antonio Barili -- Giuliano and Benedettor da Maiano -- Fra Giovanni da Verona -- Fra Damiano da Bergamo -- The ...

When I'm out shopping for a special piece of furniture for a project, I always keep my eyes open for marquetry furniture. Marquetry is the art of applied veneer, usually wood, in a pattern or picture.

A variety of woods are used to make marquetry, from seventy to eighty species, with a variety of colors, and sometimes camel bone, seashells, copper, brass, silver, gold, and ivory are incorporated to ...

Race day finery is latest eye-catching design from The Veneerist founder Ciarán Mc Gill ‘When I walk out the front door of my workshop, the Bluestack Mountains are right there. Though I get the ...