In Wajima, Japan, where hundreds of homes and studios were destroyed, master-class artisans are struggling to keep lacquer ...
Lacquer is usually for precious, pricey stuff. Think handcrafted bowls and serving trays, religious artefacts in museum collections, and the facades of old shrines, temples and other architectural ...
Li Ziqi, one of China's most popular influencers, made a surprising comeback after she stopped posting videos for more than three years. [Video grab] After a hiatus of over three years, Li Ziqi, the ...
Last month, an intriguing, black lacquer bed with a swooping silhouette, part of a sale at Christie’s, was all over my Instagram feed. It was Jean Dunand's 1932 bed Aux Nenuphars (With Waterlilies), ...
—Contrast shine with matte materials. While a “glossy” look may be your desire, consider contrasting the shine of lacquer ...
Lacquer ware is one of the oldest arts. China, Japan and India have great traditions in the craft. The lacquered objects of these countries are praised for their richness of colour, beautiful designs ...
The day that everyone in the vinyl-manufacturing world has been worried about for years finally arrived. Earlier this month, Apollo Masters Corp., one of the two places in the world that produce the ...
Most of us are familiar with vinyl LPs, and even with the way in which they are made by stamping a hot puck of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) into a record. But [Technostalgism] takes us all the way back to ...