Launch Pad: Roentgen 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. In this video, master marquetry artisan Patrice Lejeune reproduces a rose design from one of the drawers of the Art Institute s David Roentgen desk. In this technique, small segments of different colored woods are pieced together in a decorative pattern and laid over a wood base. Wood pieces can also be stained to increase the