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 ...

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 ...

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 ...