The floors were a work of art due to the marquetry used throughout the house. From LearnThat.org.
The inlay of wood has been called marquetry and intarsia, and was used principally on furniture and choir stalls. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
The dining-room floor is in marquetry — perfect folly!. From Wordnik.com. [Ursula] Reference
The marquetry of the stalls was executed in the 16th cent. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
She touched it idly, admiring the delicate marquetry work. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers Touch]
Dirt and gravel surrendered to exquisite marquetry and tile work. From Wordnik.com. [Jed the Dead]
Inlay was often imitated; the elaborate marquetry cabinets in Sta. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
A chinoiserie lamp towered on top of the marquetry table that separated them. From Wordnik.com. [Venom] Reference
The ceiling was a marvelous marquetry of many and wondrously harmonious colors. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
They were usually of massive proportions and of extreme elaboration of marquetry. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Or they are sunken, with marquetry wood floors designed to look like Persian rugs. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Girls] Reference
If the marquetry of The Kasidah compares but feebly with the compendious splendours of. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
He picked up a cigar from an inlaid marquetry box, lit it and sipped some more brandy. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
It was a magnificent piece of marquetry furniture, probably seventeenth-century French. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
The car was an old private saloon with worn cushions, flower-vases and marquetry pockets. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets]
His father opened a marquetry cabinet and brought out a decanter and glasses with gold rims. From Wordnik.com. [Venom] Reference
Under my fingers I felt tiny ridges of marquetry on the tabletop, an inlay of ivory and shell. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
That was impressed into the marquetry, then it ran on to the mahogany and became too faint to read. From Wordnik.com. [Some by Fire]
He had put down the letter on the small marquetry table beside him, and was looking at her owlishly. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder of Quality]
Rescued from the Dorma attics, its neat marquetry could have come from the hand of a master craftsman. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Of The Lion]
After the Renaissance marquetry ran riot in France, but that is out of the province of our present study. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
Antryg turned away and touched briefly the elaborate marquetry dressing table that stood beneath the mark. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
I was led into a reflection room that had marble walls with inlaid glass marquetry of a funereal exuberance. From Wordnik.com. [Of Rajas and Rollers] Reference
They are also useful if you want to create a marquetry effect, design your ideas on your computer and then print. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
For example, Bernard Steinitz is hawking a massive 1692 marquetry desk by royal cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle. From Wordnik.com. [Antiques à la Mode] Reference
An old card-table in marquetry, of which the upper part was a chess-board, stood in the space between the two windows. From Wordnik.com. [Eug�nie Grandet] Reference
She seated herself at a table, leaned her head upon her hand, and fixed her eyes upon one bright spot in the marquetry. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Opposite, beside the window, a walnut marquetry cabinet displayed James's medals, received for his service in the Crimea. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
Early pictures of the de Noailles salon show parchment walls and straw marquetry furniture designed by Jean-Michel Frank. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of Two Salons] Reference
There was much beautiful marquetry used; in fact it is a marked characteristic of much of the furniture of William and Mary. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
However, he says: I did not believe at first that it would be possible to use modern marquetry to create a work on such an immense scale. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Craig-Martin creates artwork installations in Corian] Reference
It held a round table encircled by six Hepplewhite chairs, and there was a small sideboard and a long - case clock, its front of marquetry. From Wordnik.com. [A Kiss For Julie]
It is a beautiful steel-stringed instrument with a blond finish, an ebony fingerboard, and delicate marquetry inlaid around the sound hole. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Music, A Memoir]
We also provide marquetry repair, French polishing/colour matching and repatination of furniture. From Wordnik.com. [Antiquties] Reference
"I don't mass-produce these, and no one else makes them." marquetry that's popular among furniture makers. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
The royal apartments were richly adorned with tapestry and marquetry, vases of silver and mirrors in gilded frames. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
Below these was a card-table of marquetry with spindle-legs, and on it a work-box of ivory, inlaid with silver and ebony. From Wordnik.com. [What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1] Reference
I did my writing, for the most part, in the morning, working at the Dutch marquetry bureau from ten o'clock until shortly after noon. From Wordnik.com. [Lalage's Lovers] Reference
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