Our marquetry categories
below, consist mainly of
works by renowned American
craftsman (Jeffery Allan
Nelson).
Wood marquetry
technique is a craft, which
uses the wood grain as a
design element. It is the art of
covering the surface of an
object with pieces of veneer
forming decorative patterns,
designs or pictures quite
similar to that of inlay or
intarsia.
Methods of
wood marquetry were
developed in Antwerp and
other Flemish centers of
luxury cabinet-making during
the early 16th century. The
craft was imported to France
after the mid-seventeenth
century, to create furniture of
unparalleled luxury crafted at
the royal manufactory of the
Gobelins, charged with
providing furnishings to
decorate Versailles and the
other royal residences in
France.
