refimprove date March 2012 A keepsake box or memory box , typically made from wood, is used for storing mementos of a special time, event or person. They are often created or purchased to mark life s major events like a christen ing, wedding , birthday , or First Holy Communion. They may also be given for sad occasions of bereavement, such as the stillbirth of a child, when a keepsake memory box helps with the grieving process. This sort of a keepsake box may be personalised with a person s name, design or picture. File Pantheon Theatre Memory Box.jpg right thumb Pantheon Theatre Memory Box In September 2011 the BBC highlighted a modern example of a particularly intricate memory box, in the form of a Pantheon Theatre, containing over 10,000 pieces of Marquetry, taking 18 months to create. ref http www.youtube.com watch?v MMxFCmjD3Y Memory Box Model Theatre , BBC East Midlands News YouTube clip . Retrieved 2012 03 02. ref ref http derbyshire.greatbritishlife.co.uk article wheathills let the memory live again nigel heldreich 35738 Wheathills Let the memory live again , Derbyshire Life Magazine, September 15, 2011. Retrieved 2012 03 02. ref References reflist tradition stub Category Containers ... more details
Wikify date May 2011 Adrien Faizelot Delorme master in 1748 after 1783 was a well known ref Lesser, but highly competent is the assessment of John Whitehead, The French Interior in the Eighteenth Century , 1993 189, ref cabinetmaker b niste working in Paris , the most prominent in a family of b nistes ref Though he used the stamp DELORME without any further signifier, his father Fran ois Faizelot Delorme 1691 1768 was also a ma tre b niste , as were his brothers Jean Louis and Andr . Francis J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection Furniture, Gilt Bronze and Mounted Porcelain ii, 1966 542f. ref Becoming master 22 June 1748, he set up in the rue du Temple, ref Watson 1966. ref a centrally located site where fashionable clients could find him, for he worked as a dealer in furniture as well as running his own workshop as dealer, his stamp is often found on pieces made by other b nistes . ref Watson 1966. ref His own furniture featured fine marquetry and lacquered furniture. In 1783 Delorme sold his remaining stock at public auction and retired from business. ref Watson 1966. ref Notes Reflist 2 DEFAULTSORT Delorme, Adrien Faizelot Category Furniture makers Category French furniture designers Category Artists from Paris fr Adrien Delorme ... more details
File Bureau du roi, cot droit et face avant.jpg thumb The Bureau du Roi IPA fr by o dy wa , the King s desk , also known as Louis XV s roll top secretary lang fr Secr taire cylindre de Louis XV , is the richly ornamented royal Cylinder desk whose construction was done at the end of Louis XV of France Louis XV reign. The Bureau du Roi was probably started in 1760, when the commission was formally announced. Its first designer was Jean Francis Oeben Jean Fran ois Oeben , the master cabinet maker of the royal arsenal. The first step in its construction was the fabrication of an extremely detailed miniature model in wax . The full scale desk was finished in 1769 by his successor, Jean Henri Riesener , who had married Oeben s widow. Made for the new Cabinet du Roi at the Palace of Versailles , it was transferred to the Louvre Museum in Paris after the French Revolution , but has been returned to the Palace of Versailles in the 20th century where it stands again in the room where it was standing before the Revolution, i.e. the Cabinet int rieur du Petit Appartement Inner study of the Private Apartments , the famous study room where kings Louis XV of France Louis XV and Louis XVI of France Louis XVI carried out their daily work, and inside which King Louis XVI of France Louis XVI took the decision to support the American Revolutionary War American insurgents in 1777. Secret diplomatic papers were kept inside the secretary s secret drawers, whose only key the king always carried with him. File Secr taire cylindre de Louis XV 4.JPG thumb left The desk is covered with intricate marquetry of a wide variety of fine woods. In an oval reserve at the center of its public side, away from the king himself, is the marquetry head of Silence, with forefinger to lips, a reminder of the discretion required in the king s business. Gilt bronze moldings of plaques, statuettes, miniature busts and vases, even integral scrolling gilt bronze candle stands, further adorn the surfaces of t ... more details
File Bed of Ware.jpg thumb right Great Bed of Ware, 1590 1600 V&A Museum no. W.47 1 to 28 1931 Image Great Bed of Ware 1877.png thumb right The Great Bed in Saracen s Head. The Great Bed of Ware is an extremely large oak four poster bed , carved with marquetry , that was originally housed in the White Hart Inn in Ware, Hertfordshire Ware , England. Built by Hertfordshire carpenter Jonas Fosbrooke circa 1590, the bed measures ten by eleven feet and can sleep over fifteen people at once. Many of those who have used the bed have carved their names into its posts. Like many objects from that time, the bed is carved with patterns derived from European Renaissance ornament. Originally it would have been brightly painted, and traces of these colours can still be seen on the figures on the bed head. The design of the marquetry panels is derived from the work of Dutch artist Hans Vredeman de Vries 1527 1604 and the panels were probably made by English craftsmen working in London in the late Elizabethan period. The bed hangings are modern re creations of fabrics of the period. By the 19th century, the bed had been moved from the White Hart Inn to the Saracen s Head, another Ware inn. In 1870, William Henry Teale, the owner of the Rye House, Hertfordshire Rye House , acquired the bed and put it to use in a pleasure garden . When interest in the garden waned in the 1920s, the bed was sold. In 1931, it was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In March, 2012, the bed is scheduled to be exhibited for a year in Ware Museum, on loan from the V & A. References to the Great Bed in literature William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night play Twelfth Night George Gordon Byron s Don Juan George Farquhar s The Recruiting Officer . Djuna Barnes Nightwood Loretta Chase s Last Night s Scandal page 90 Bibliography cite book author Jackson, Anna ed. title V&A A Hundred Highlights publisher V&A Publications year 2001 External links Commons category http collections.vam.ac.uk item O9138 ... more details
up and applied in lieu of marquetry panels. For such decorator dealers as Simon Philippe Poirier ... in a drawer. R.V.L.C. often used marquetry designs and gilt bronze mounts very similar to those ... neoclassical taste, with pictorial marquetry of vases and trophies of the arts, that was delivered ... more details
for the town in France Thuret, Puy de D me The Thuret family of clockmakers established themselves as one of the outstanding craftsman dynasties in 17th and 18th century Paris . Their clocks are signed Thuret , and distinguishing which member of the Thuret family made a specific clock is sometimes an unrewarding effort. Isaac II Thuret 1630 1706 , one of the first French clockmakers to make pendulum clock s, ref http www.antique horology.org Editorial EarlyPendulumClocks Reinier Plomp, The earliest Dutch and French Pendulum clocks, 1657 1662 . ref held the royal appointment. His son Jacques III Thuret 1669 1738 , was appointed clockmaker to Louis XIV of France in 1694. A perquisite of the royal appointment was the use of workshops in the Palais du Louvre Galeries du Louvre , where since the time of Henry IV of france Henri IV , the outstanding artists, designers and craftsmen were granted workshop spaces, fostering cross fertilisation among the arts. As one consequence there are numerous clocks by the Thuret dynasty in cases of rich tortoiseshell and brass marquetry designed by Andre Charles Boulle one such remarkable clock by Jacques Thuret or his father is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art . ref http www.metmuseum.org toah hd clck hod 58.53.htm Metropolitan Museum of Art Clock with pedestal, Pendule sur gaine ref Jacques III Thuret married a daughter of the royal designer Jean B rain the Elder , whose designs he assembled and published his daughter Suzanne married the painter, draughtsman and engraver Charles Fran ois Silvestre . ref Michael Bryan, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers Biographical and Critical , s.v. Charles Fran ois Silvestre . ref Notes reflist External links http www.kunstpedia.com articles 47 1 A Longitude Timekeeper Page1.html A Longitude Timekeeper Isaac Thuret with the Balance Spring invented by Christiaan Huygens DEFAULTSORT Thuret Category Clockmakers ... more details
File Musee d art naif de Paris.JPG thumb 300px Mus e d Art Na f Max Fourny The Mus e d Art Na f Max Fourny Museum of Na ve Art Max Fourny , also known as the Mus e d Art Brut & Art Singulier Museum of Primitive Art and Singular Art , is a museum of naive art located in the Halle Saint Pierre at 2, rue Ronsard, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris , France . The closest Paris M tro stations are Anvers Paris M tro Anvers on Paris M tro Line 2 Line 2 , and Abbesses Paris M tro Abbesses on Paris M tro Line 12 Line 12 . It is open daily closed on weekends in August an admission fee is charged. The museum was established in 1986 by publisher Max Fourny , in former market built in 1868 at the base of Montmartre . It presents temporary exhibitions of folk art , naive art , and outsider art . In 2008, its permanent collection held 629 works including 516 paintings, 13 works on paper, marquetry, 11 textile works, and 47 set under glass. See also List of museums in Paris International Museum of Naive Art References Commons category Mus e d Art Na f Max Fourny http www.hallesaintpierre.org Halle Saint Pierre Official Site of the Museum http www.museums of paris.com musee fr.php?code 340 Museums of Paris entry French http en.parisinfo.com sites culturels 12 halle saint pierre musee d art brut art singulier et outsider Paris Info entry French http www.paris.org Musees Art.Naif info.html Paris.org entry coord 48 53 5 N 2 20 40 E type landmark region FR display title Category Art museums and galleries in Paris Art naif maxfourny, Musee Category 18th arrondissement of Paris Category Na ve art Category Art museums established in 1986 Category 1986 establishments in France Category Buildings and structures completed in 1868 fr Halle Saint Pierre, mus e d Art Brut et d Art Singulier id Mus e d Art Na f Max Fourny ... more details
The term harewood or airwood originally described a type of maple wood with a curled or fiddleback figure, used to make the backs of stringed instruments. In 17th century England it was imported from Germany. The earliest published use of the term is probably that in the 1670 edition of Sylva I would also add something concerning what Woods are observed to be most sonorous for Musical Instruments We as yet detect few but the German Air, which is a species of Maple , for the Rimms of Viols and the choicest and finest grain d Fir for the Bellyes ref John Evelyn, Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees , London 1670 , p. 181. ref A slightly later citation occurs in Musick s Monument of 1676 The Air wood is absolutely the Best, and next to that our English Maple . ref Thomas Mace, Musick s Monument , London 1676 , p. 49. ref In the 18th century airwood came to be used by marqueteurs for most artificial colours they used holly, which takes vegetable dyes very well, but airwood was employed either in its natural off white state or stained with iron sulphate to produce a range of silver and silver grey hues. ref Peter Weber, The Cabinet Maker s Guide , 2nd edn., London 1809 , p. 9. ref The reason that airwood was preferred to holly for this colour was that it gave a metallic sheen or lustre, while holly dyed by the same process turned a rather dead grey. The use of airwood in this way meant that by the 19th century it was associated specifically with that colour, and at the same time name gradually changed from airwood to harewood. In a relatively short space of time the action of the chemicals, together with natural oxidization, turns harewood brown, sometimes with a greyish or greenish hue, which is how the wood now appears on old marquetry. The notion that harewood and other coloured woods can be produced by injecting dyes into the roots of trees appears to be an old wives tale of some antiquity, perhaps propagated by marqueteurs to protect their trade secrets. References ... more details
Image Linoleum Knife.jpg thumb A modern linoleum knife with a wooden handle. A linoleum knife also called a banana knife or hook axe ref cite book title The Great Tool Emporium last Manners first David X. year 1980 publisher Popular Science isbn 9780525931218 page 233 ref is a small knife that has a short, stiff blade with a curved point and a handle and is used to cut linoleum ref cite book title The Complete Guide to Kitchens last first year 2004 publisher Creative Publishing international isbn 9781589231382 page 169 ref or other sheet materials such as wood panelling ref cite book title The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair last first year 2004 publisher Creative Publishing international isbn 9781589231818 page 39 ref and wood veneer veneer ref cite book title Veneering, Marquetry and Inlay last first year 1996 publisher Taunton Press isbn 9781561581191 page 36 ref and sheet mica . ref cite book title Mica Industry in Rajasthan last Mathur first Krishna Swarup year 1968 publisher Asha Publishing House pages p. 65 ref The knife is similar in design to the sickle . Like most cutting tools with hooked blades, the purpose of this design is to cut by pulling. This helps to reduce the wasted effort of simultaneously pressing the blade into the item as one would with a straight blade. It also allows the user to reach out and cut an item with the arm fully extended, such as during plant trimming or harvesting, or making a long continuous cut into a surface. This tool can also be used to pick locks by bypassing the safely latch in the doorjam. ref cite book title The Complete Book of Locks and Locksmithing last Phillips first Bill year 2001 publisher McGraw Hill Professional isbn 9780071374941 page 346 ref Knives of a similar shape and design are commonly used by carpet fitters. References Reflist Category Knives ko ... more details
Thoroughbred racehorse infobox horsename Artax image caption sire Marquetry horse Marquetry grandsire Conquistador Cielo dam Raging Apalachee damsire Apalachee sex Stallion horse Stallion foaled 1995 country United States colour Bay horse Dark Bay Brown breeder Vinery Stud & Carondelet Farm owner Paraneck Stable trainer Louis Albertrani record 25 7 9 3 earnings United States dollar US 1,685,840 race Robert B. Lewis Stakes Santa Catalina Stakes 1998 br San Felipe Stakes 1998 br Carter Handicap 1999 br Forest Hills Handicap 1999 br Vosburgh Stakes 1999 br Breeders Cup wins br Breeders Cup Sprint 1999 awards American Champion Sprint Horse 1999 honours updated June 20, 2010 Artax 1995 2012 was an American Eclipse Award Champion Thoroughbred Horse racing racehorse . He was named after a horse featured in the children s Fantasy literature fantasy novel The Neverending Story . ref cite news last Privman first Jay title HORSE RACING Artax, a Giant Colt, Faces a Strong Derby Test url http www.nytimes.com 1998 04 03 sports horse racing artax a giant colt faces a strong derby test.html?pagewanted 2 accessdate 4 April 2012 newspaper New York Times date April 3, 1998 ref Artax equaled or broke three track records during the 1999 racing season when he won the Breeders Cup Sprint , Carter Handicap and Forest Hills Handicap. ref name bloodhorse cite web url http www.bloodhorse.com horse racing articles 66874 champion sprinter artax dies title Champion Sprinter Artax Dies date 9 January 2012 publisher The BloodHorse accessdate 9 January 2012 ref Those victories, coupled with a win in the Vosburgh Stakes , earned him that year s Eclipse Award as champion sprinter. ref cite web url http espn.go.com horse news 2000 0117 297492.html title 1999 Eclipse Awards List date 18 January 2000 publisher ESPN accessdate 9 January 2012 ref During the 1999 running of the Maryland Breeders Cup, an inebriated man Lee Chang Ferrell walked under the rail at Pimlico Racecourse on Preakness Day and stood in front ... more details
as rich Tax farmer fermiers g n rals . He used floral and figural marquetry techniques to a great ... predecessor Oeben his name alone appears in the marquetry. ref Riesener s name appears in the marquetry ... coffer et secr taire, 1775 80, V&A , UK Marquetry Panel Panel, as part of a table top delivered to Marie Antoinette s Petit Trianon at Versailles Riesener s largest and finest marquetrymarquetry execution ... more details
deal of attention by the introduction of a new style of marquetry, in which light and shade, instead ... Louis XVI paid him 8o,000 livres . Outwardly it was in the form of a commode, its marquetry panels ... needed date September 2011 His marquetry is bolder and more vigorous than that of Riesener, who in other ... in architectural forms, and his marquetry more often than not represents those scenes from classical ... more details
chaser , gilding gilder and maker of marquetry. He received the post of premier b niste du Roi . ref ..., based on the refinements of the marquetry and the re use of marquetry templates and characteristic ... Frenchman to practice the delightful art of marquetry, nor was he quite the inventor of the inlay ... fetched 12,075 at the Hamilton Palace sale the marquetry commodes, enriched with bronze mounts ... more details
Infobox horseracing personality image Replace this image male.svg only free content images are allowed for depicting living people see WP NONFREE name David Flores caption occupation Jockey birth place Tijuana , Mexico birth date February 5, 1968 death date career wins 3,000 ongoing race Hollywood Gold Cup 1991 & 1996 & 2010 br Miesque Stakes 1991, 2002 br Santa Anita Handicap 1997 br Pacific Classic Stakes 1999 br Eddie Read Handicap 1992, 1998, 2003 br Del Mar Futurity 1996, 1999, 2002 br San Felipe Stakes 1997, 1999 br Texas Mile Stakes 1997, 2001, 2008 br Kentucky Oaks 1998 br Moccasin Stakes 1998 br Yellow Ribbon Stakes 2001 br Godolphin Mile 2001 br UAE Derby 2001 br Arlington Million 2003 br Turf Paradise Derby 2003, 2009 br American Oaks 2003 br Sunshine Millions Oaks 2003, 2004, 2007 br Daytona Handicap 2004 br Sunshine Millions Fillies & Mares Sprint 2006 br Sunshine Millions Filly & Mare Turf 2006 br Gamely Stakes 2007 br Malibu Stakes 2007, 2008 br Sunshine Millions Dash 2008 br Los Angeles Handicap 2008 br Triple Bend Invitational Handicap 2008 br CashCall Mile Invitational Stakes 2008 br Senorita Stakes 2009 br Illinois Derby 2010 Breeders Cup wins br Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies 2001 br Breeders Cup Juvenile 2003 br Breeders Cup Mile 2004 awards honours horses Tempera horse Tempera , Silver Charm , Siphon horse Siphon , Sulamani , Marquetry horse Marquetry , Bob Black Jack , Zenyatta , Majestic City , Sarah s Secret horse updated January 28, 2007 David Romero Flores born February 5, 1968 in Tijuana , Mexico is a jockey in United States American Thoroughbred horse race Thoroughbred horse racing . His father was a jockey and an exercise rider in Southern California . David Flores rode his first winner at Agua Caliente Racetrack in his native Mexico in 1984. He went on to win riding titles at Santa Anita Park , Del Mar Racetrack , Oak Tree Racing Association , and Fairplex . His big break came in 1996 and 1997 when he rode Siphon to victories in big rac ... more details
Anton Seuffert 1815 6 August 1887 was born in Bohemia. He was a cabinetmaker with a particular expertise in the art of marquetry . Anton Seuffert, also known as Anton Seufert, learned his craft from his father, Anton Seufert senior, who was also a cabinetmaker. Seuffert worked in Vienna for the Austrian furniture manufacturing company Leistler, rising to the position of foreman. He was sent by his firm to England in order to assemble furniture for the royal places and also to set up the firm s large display of luxury wooden furniture for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. He stayed in England for several years and married Anna Piltz in 1855 or 1856. He emigrated to New Zealand from London on the ship Caduceus with his wife and two children, Josefieni, and William, and arrived in Auckland on 19 May 1859 surname was spelt Senfick Senfert . The family settled in Auckland and increased by a further five children. Juliena was born in September 1860, Augusta Amelia in August 1862, Albert in October 1864, Charles Antonis in March 1867 and the youngest Adolf Herman in October 1869. Adolf died of typhoid fever at 11 years of age. For nearly thirty years Seuffert made fine furniture for the houses of weathly families in New Zealand and overseas experimenting with and using the native timbers of New Zealand. It is possible that he first became familiar with New Zealand timbers while he was in London through his contact with Johann Levien who had spent several years in New Zealand. Certainly the demands of the marquetry technique ensured that Sueffert became an expert in the properties of New Zealand timber and it is likely he made detailed studies of native woods to maximise the impact of his intricate designs. His reputation as a cabinetmaker of international distinction was cemented when, in 1862, Sueffert received a lot of publicity for his work when he made a writing cabinet using New Zealand woods, consisting of 30,000 pieces, valued at 300 guineas, which was purchas ... more details
Sympson the Joiner floruit fl. 1660s was a joiner and perhaps cabinet maker who worked at the Royal Navy Royal Naval Woolwich Dockyard Dockyard at Woolwich in London . He is remembered only because Samuel Pepys mentions his name several times in his diary. Pepys job as a naval administrator brought him into daily contact with the naval dockyards and he was responsible for various aspects of their administration. Although the diary explicitly notes that Pepys was paying him handsomely, it is probable that Sympson was working for Pepys instead of working on the interiors of warships. In the 17th century, a joiner built furniture out of frame and panel construction, a refined version of the techniques that were also used to frame up doors and for the panelling of rooms, while a cabinet maker built furniture with flush surfaces suitable for Wood veneer veneer s or marquetry , assembled using dovetails. The two trades were quite distinct, and for the fitting out of Royal Navy ships the services of a joiner would have been much more appropriate. Pepys diary records that he used Sympson s services on several occasions to work on improvements for his office and his home in Seething Lane, London . For example on 14 August 1668 he wrote At home I find Sympson putting up my new chimney piece in our great chamber which is very fine, but will cost a great deal of money, but it is not flung away . Of especial interest is the fact that Pepys had Sympson build bookcase s for his growing library of official papers and personal manuscripts and printed books. It is probable that these cases are the same ones that have been preserved in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge Magdalene College in accordance with the stipulations of Pepys s will law will . Pepys wrote on 17 August 1667 So took up my wife and home, there I to the office, and thence with Sympson, the joyner home to put together the press he hath brought me for my books this day, which pleases me exceedingly. and ... more details
Michael Angelo Pergolesi was an Italy Italian decorative arts decorative artist from the 18th century who worked mainly in England . Biographical details are almost entirely lacking, but like Giovanni Battista Cipriani Cipriani he was brought, or attracted, to England by Robert Adam after his famous continental tour. He worked so extensively for the Adams , and his designs are so closely typical of much upon which their reputation rests, that it is impossible to doubt his influence upon their style. His range, like theirs, was catholic . He designed furniture, mantelpieces, ceilings, chandeliers, doors and mural ornament with equal felicity, and as an artist in plaster work in low relief he was unapproached in his day. He delighted in urns and sphinx es and interlaced gryphon s, in amorini with bows and torches, in trophies of musical instruments and martial weapons, and in flowering arabesques which were always graceful if sometimes rather thin. The centre panels of his walls and ceilings were often occupied by classical and pastoral subjects painted by Cipriani, Angelica Kauffmann or her husband Antonio Zucchi , and sometimes by himself. These nymphs and amorini, with their disengaged and riant air and classic grace, were not infrequently used as copies for painting upon that satinwood furniture of the last quarter of the 18th century which has never been surpassed for dainty elegance, and for the popularity of which Pergolesi was in large measure responsible they were even reproduced in marquetry . Some of this painted work was, apparently, executed by his own hand most of the pieces attributed to him are remarkable examples of artistic taste and technical skill. His satinwood table tops, china cabinets and side tables are the last word in a daintiness which here and there perhaps is mere prettiness. Pergolesi likewise designed silver plate, and many of his patterns are almost instinctively attributed to the brothers Adam by the makers and purchasers of modern re ... more details
Image Belton House 2006.Giano.gif thumb right 350px Belton House , an example of Carolean architecture. Restoration style , also known as Carolean style from the Latin Carolus Charles , refers to the decorative arts popular in England from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to the late 1680s after Charles II of England Charles II reigned 1660 1685 . The return of the monarch king and his court from exile on the Continent led to the replacement of the Puritan severity of the Cromwellian style with a taste for magnificence and opulence and to the introduction of Netherlands Dutch and France French art istic influences. These are evident in furniture in the use of floral marquetry , walnut instead of oak , twisted turned supports and legs, exotic Wood veneer veneer s, cane seats and backs on chair s, sumptuous tapestry and velvet upholstery and ornate carved and gilded scrolling bases for cabinets. Restoration silver is characterized by embossed motifs for tulip s and naturalistic fruit and leaves. New types of furniture introduced in this period include cabinet on stand cabinets on stands , Chest of drawers chests of drawers , armchair s and wing chair s and day beds. The growing power of English East India Company resulted in increased imports of exotic commodities from Chinese export porcelain China and Japan , including tea , porcelain and lacquer , and chintz es from India . This led to a craze for chinoiserie , reflected on the development of imitation lacquer Japanning , blue and white porcelain blue and white decoration on Pottery ceramics , flat chased scenes of Chinese style figures and landscapes on silver and new forms of silver as teapot s, as well as colourful Indian style crewelwork bed hangings and curtain s. Other developments in the Restoration period were the emergence of the English glass industry, following the invention of lead glass by George Ravenscroft around 1676, and the manufacture of slipware by Thomas Toft . After the accession of Wil ... more details
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