Thousands of years ago, artisans devised ways to create objects decorated with exquisite inlays of wood, stone, metal, shell, ivory and other materials. They would carve out a recess and fill it with ...

Marquetry is an age-old woodworking practice made popular by French king Louis XIV, it involves laying veneers like a puzzle to create an ornamental pattern. Today, multicoloured examples have ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Marquetry is making a comeback. Ornate, detailed and visibly handcrafted, the art of creating designs and images by ...

Spanish designer Jaime Hayon explains how traditional marquetry techniques informed his Stone Age Folk pavilion in this movie Dezeen filmed for Caesarstone during Milan design week. Caesarstone's ...

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 ...

OF ALL THE ARTISTIC techniques used by designers and cabinetmakers over the centuries, marquetry would seem the least likely to enjoy a 21st-century resurgence. It takes forever. It's prohibitively ...

John Sedgwick’s intricately carved three foot wide scale grand piano is his pride and joy. It’s an extraordinary marquetry showpiece painstakingly crafted for 3,000 hours over three years with ...

With Swiss watch sales down, there are fewer calls for techniques like enameling and marquetry. By Nazanin Lankarani When Anita Porchet started out as an independent enameler in 1992, her specialty ...

1. BULGARI It’s all about underwater splendour with the Il Giardino Marino di Bulgari. The timepiece’s tourbillon is revealed through a window at six o’clock, and its intricate beauty is enhanced by ...