Technique
Marquetry
See how marquetry turns thin veneers and other fitted materials into an image, why grain changes the drawing and how one cut can produce two reversed patterns.
Objects · people · ideas
Material & making
Follow the work of hands, tools and materials, from woven seats to inlaid surfaces.
6 entries in this collection
In this collection
Historic object
Cabinet attributed to André-Charles Boulle
Look closely at Met cabinet 59.108: a towering object from about 1700 whose marquetry, bronze mounts and hidden substitutions reveal how spectacle and workshop economy worked together.
Material
Paper cord
See how thin paper becomes twisted cord, how a weaver turns tension into a chair seat, and why patina and repair belong to the material's life.
Design
CH24 Wishbone Chair
Read the CH24 Wishbone Chair through its dates, curved frame, Y-shaped support, joinery and paper-cord seat—then separate model history from vintage-object evidence.
Person
Niels Vodder
Use Guild records and museum objects to understand how cabinetmaker Niels Vodder turned Finn Juhl's demanding furniture ideas into small-series physical work.
Historic object
Vanderbilt Library Table 1972.47
Look across Herter Brothers' monumental Vanderbilt library table: a birthday sky, shell-inlaid globes and imperial references turn furniture into portraiture.