Launch Pad: Boulle Marquetry
This video was created for LaunchPad, a program of digital interpretive materials that supplement the viewing of works of art on display in the Art Institute of Chicago s galleries. Contemporary marquetry artist Patrick Edwards employs traditional tools and techniques to create works worthy of great artists of the past such as AndréCharles Boulle. Boulle employed two kinds of marquetrypremièrepartie, in which the tortoiseshell serves as the background with inlaid brass, and contrepartie, with tortoi
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