Wiley Purkey Well, there's been such a huge response that I'm going to be making this into a series of posts. I'm getting pa...

Time for a little eye candy. After all my inane babbling in the last few posts I think it's time we heard from a Master, and Jean-Franc...

 This gorgeous ceiling was created with en feuille printed papers, made by an unknown Parisian manufacturer around 1780. Une feuille de pa...

Pierre Ramond wrote a three set volume of books called Masterpieces of Marquetry , published by Getty. It's impossible to overstate the...

The apartment of Pierre Delbée, the President of Jansen , was home to five incredible inlaid doors. Made of ebony and ivory, each was a su...

"...The case had its beginning when I entered into the Art Exhibition. To buy furniture that was my goal In the newest, newest sty...

Here's a plate from the book ' The Studiolo of Urbino: An Iconographic Investigation ,' by Luciano Cheles. It shows the South Wa...