Often it’s the subtle details that make custom furniture magnificent. One of our favorite ways to punctuate a piece is with mother-of-pearl inlay. Inlay is the embedding of precision cut materials into grooves carved into a piece. As we’ve mentioned, it can be “maddeningly time-consuming”, but is always utterly stunning. Below, a custom vanity in cherry with… [Read More]
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Modern-Day Master: Jean-Paul Viollet
He has always been drawn to aesthetics, to the awesome beauty of Mother Nature’s handiwork, “noble materials” sourced from the farthest reaches of the globe. Mahogany, mica, mother of pearl: In his celebrated workshop in Brooklyn, he transforms these wonders into elegant works of art, which Departures magazine has described as “some of the finest… [Read More]