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Watering Hole II
by John Jeggo
Here is a piece I did for a doctor friend who suggested the collage idea. After I explained the process for creating a marquetry piece he insisted that I develop a piece that illustrates that process. The piece includes a premiere-partie, and a contra-partie, both generated from a single cutting session. Also included are the line drawing that served as a cutting template, a veneer selection palette, the original color photograph, a posterized version of the photo and photos of me cutting a packet and assembling veneer pieces….and my signature in marquetry using walnut burl and eucalyptus.
“Grizzy” - Rob Milam
Studiolo in the Ducal Palace of Urbino, Italy. Made by Francesco di Giorgio Martini.
This is one of several woodcut panels. They are deliberately carved in trompe l’oeil fashion to look as if they are shelves containing a number of interesting objects, but only when viewed from the proper angle.
— John 1
I created a simple doodle to see if a laser machine could effectively cut what I typically cut with a scroll saw. Here are some pieces from the first trial run. It cut very well I think, and VERY efficiently. Thanks Tom for the use of your machine. I'm optimistic about the end results.
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The Fascinating Wooden World of Livio De Marchi
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Venetian artist Livio De Marchi is like a real-life Gepetto. Except, he doesn’t need a fairy god mother for his works to come alive. De Marchi’s works of art are so life-like, sometimes it’s hard to tell they’re made of wood.
The tools that De Marchi works with are fairly simple – a hundred varieties of chisel dated back to 1964, an old hammer and a steady hand – but the stuff he produces is nothing short of spectacular. A wooden replica of a leather jacket he made looks so real, you’d actually reach out to try it on if you didn’t know better. The only distinguishing factor between real and wood is that he doesn’t paint any of his creations, because he believes that the grain and knots of the plain wood are very intriguing. He spends hours at his workbench every single day, producing masterpiece after masterpiece.
De Marchi discovered his passion for carving pretty early in life. As a child he was interested in ornamental carving and practiced in a craftsman’s workshop. He’d always been good at molding materials and creating detailed sculptures. He studied art and drawing at the “Accademia di Belle Arti”, and began work with marble. Soon he shifted to bronze, before finally settling on wood as his preferred medium, for its versatility. He soon opened his own studio. One of the most notable works of De Marchi is the House of Books that he built in 1990, in Tambre D’Alpago, Italy. His ultimate goal is to create 10 such structures around the world, of which this was the first. And it got him instant fame and popularity. Literally everything inside and outside the house is made of wood – right from the bookshelves to the books in the shelves. The tables, plates, cutlery, table cloths, couches and couch cushions, the clothes in the wardrobe and women’s lingerie hanging on the clothesline are all wooden. Even the lampshades and chandeliers! The house is meant to depict a book-lover’s dream.
De Marchi loves creating objects of fantasy and another noteworthy creation is “A Dream in Venice”. Made in 1994, it is a huge wooden pumpkin carriage pulled by four wooden horses, much like Cinderella’s. But this one glides along the waters of Venetian canals. It’s not the only one, his array of floating sculptures include replicas of famous old cars, like the Mercedes Seagull he created in 1997 and the Volkswagen Beetle in 1999. His depictions of a piano covered in cloth, a woman’s handbag and umbrella, and a bubble-blower with soap bubbles rendered in glass are quite amazing. He’s really good at glass work too, as you can make out from a picture of glass balloons he’s holding – they look very realistic. De Marchi’s works have been showcased in art shows at several major cities including London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Zurich, Milan and Florence. Several art magazines such as Vogue, Interior Design, Decoration and Madame Figaro have featured his story as well.
I’m quite in love with De Marchi’s “basket of teddy bears” sculpture; it’s definitely one of the cutest things I’ve seen in a while. You can check out all of his work on his official website.
Photos via Craftsmanship Museum
One of our tourist stops while we’re at Thailand was a wood carving factory. I gotta say, they’re pretty awesome. Three dimensional wood art is seriously no joke to make. It’s appalling how they could create such intricate designs in a span of 3 months! I personally asked the guy in the middle photo how long he worked on a piece with a size 4 meters long, thinking that he’ll say around a year, but he replied that he can finish it in 3 months! Amazeballs.
Belarusian Woodcarver Makes Intricate Clocks Exclusively from Wood
http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/belarusian-woodcarver-makes-intricate-clocks-exclusively-from-wood.html
Good Vibrations: An Intricately Carved Cabinet Looks Like a Digital Glitch
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art by Carley Brandau~
Jim Milam makes turned ornaments. He glues up segmented blanks with as many as 128 pieces and then turns them on the lathe. The finials are turned separately and glued in place. Rad, huh?
Oops! - By Paul Miller
from the artists website:
"Oops! … is a veneered cabinet that explores several facets of design and execution:
Extensive grain matching
Innovative hinges
Unusual leg / support system
Humour
The box is veneered on the inside with spalted Western Maple and on the outside with Western Maple and Wenge. The legs are turned from Western Maple and Wenge.
The integral hinges are of my own design. They can be disassembled.
The top is divided into four triangles and the grain of each follows perfectly over the edge and down the sides, back and front, like a waterfall.
All the veneer in this piece was cut in my shop and is about 3/32” thick.
The piece is about 31”high, 22”wide and 16”deep."
http://prmdesigns.com/index.html
If you’ve ever wanted a cabinet with secret compartments — and we’re talking about a lot of secret compartments here — then you’re going to like videos from the Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens exhibit that was at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (October 30, 2012–January 27, 2013).
One of the finest achievements of European furniture making, this cabinet is the most important product from Abraham (1711—1793) and David Roentgen’s (1743—1807) workshop. A writing cabinet crowned with a chiming clock, it features finely designed marquetry panels and elaborate mechanisms that allow for doors and drawers to be opened automatically at the touch of a button. Owned by King Frederick William II, the Berlin cabinet is uniquely remarkable for its ornate decoration, mechanical complexity, and sheer size.
In addition to the Secretary Cabinet above, there’s also a writing desk, a rolltop desk, and an automated Marie Antoinette music player.
via Doobybrain.
Sketching with a band saw. James McNabb’s Scarp wood cityscapes
These marquetry pieces were rendered in rosewood, mahogany, zebrawood and others. They designed after original photos I shot in Feb. 2008. - Rob Milam
Landfill Harmonic is an upcoming feature-length documentary about a remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay, where young musicians play instruments made from trash. For more information about the film, please visit facebook.com/landfillharmonicmovie.