French Marquetry Furniture: Paintings in Wood Jewellery Hardback Edition

Hardback Edition

Housed in the De Walden Library at the Wallace Collection

The Minton range design has been adapted from the Turkish tiles on display in the Smoking Room at the Wallace Collection

Coupled with the Wallace Collection's other Boucher paintings in the stairwell

French Marquetry Furniture: Paintings in Wood Jewellery Hardback Edition10% discount for Members Join now Marquetry creating patterns and pictures through inlaid veneers has long been recognised as one of the most attractive and sophisticated methods of decorating fine furniture. The compositions of 18th century Parisian marquetry were described by one contemporary as no less than 'paintings in wood'. This Wallace Collection publication written by one of the museums former conservationists, Yannick Chastang, highlights