Marquetry

The marquetry is a decoration carried out with Placage S cut out following a drawing and stuck on a support (piece of furniture, woodwork, or table). The images thus obtained can be geometrical (one speaks then about frisage), figurative or abstract. By extension, this term indicates the technique and the trade which carry out this specific decoration.

It also indicates the great compositions of stone on the ground but is different from the mosaic (and its tesselles) by dimensions of its large flat tints (often of marble in the pavements of furnace bridges in Italy, for example with Pisa or His, of hard or semi-precious stone with Florence - to see the poor Opificio delle lasts).

History

At the origin of marquetry, it there with the incrustation. Practiced in the decoration of objects in Wood since the beginning of the Egyptian Antiquity, this technique consists in digging wood to place pieces of another matter there (Os, horn, Ivoire, Molten glass, stone…) or of a different gasoline. This decorative technique was very much used (sometimes on the furniture of less easy people, the incrustations are painted in Trompe-l'oeil) and was quickly diffused in everyone ancient. Though used punctually, the incrustation will not survive to say not to the Roman Empire.

It is at the 14th century that Italian re-uses this technique to decorate furniture. Marquetry reaches its apogee with under the styles Louis XIV and Louis XV in particular. Then marquetry is forsaken at the 19th century, used mainly in frisage (Louis-Philippe style). The end of the 19th century sees reappearing this art for magnifier natural and tortured forms Art nouveau.

Various techniques

The intarsio

Ancestor of marquetry, this technique appeared during the Antiquité, it consists in encrusting various materials such as the Nacre or hones it. At that time, marquetry is mainly on buildings.

The Italy revolutionized this technique by applying it to furniture at the 14th century with plated wood pieces of furniture of mother-of-pearl or of bone. These material and wood turpentine combinations form planks or tables (like this Trompe-l'oeil of Francesco di Giorgio). Thus the name of " is found; painting in bois" to indicate marquetries.

Marquetry Swell

At the 17th century marquetry was democratized in all Europe. Marquetry improves in Germany in particular. In France, it is Andre-Charles Boulle, main cabinetmaker which developed an existing technique the " Tarsia has incastro" who revolutionized the practice of marquetry. In this method, all platings are superimposed in a package. Then, comes cutting from each form to the Scie to jig-saw known as " bocfil" or with the " rest of marqueteur" who has a very fine blade; one cuts out the whole with the saw to be cut out. One obtains, during the assembly, the clear plating which is encrusted in dark wood and vice versa. Also, the " Boulle" marquetry; introduced a new speciality: the incrustation of scale of tortoise.

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