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Introduction
Miko Vasques Dias (ed.)
Identifying and repainting historical graining techniques in interiors dated before 1800
Bernice Crijns
Marble, tortoiseshell, wood and other materials created in paint and lacquer during the Baroque period in Denmark
Berit Møller
Retouching without touching. Creating the illusion of recoloured furniture through light projection
Federica van Adrichem, Maarten van Bommel
Dutch painted furniture. Imitation of function, style, construction and material
Hans Piena
Where high art and folk art meet – how rural pieces of furniture depict the differences. Techniques, tools and textures used in rural workshops to upgrade furniture
Karl-Heinz Wüstner
Shagreen. The history and conservation of decorative ray skin in furniture
Cathy Silverman
From ‘real composition’ to ‘higher matters of taste’. Exploring the value shift from materials to design in early British composition ornament
Victoria Coibion
Special coloured inlays on furniture in the mid-nineteenth century. Imitation of lacquer, ivory or horn?
Carola Klinzmann, Stefanie van Wüllen
A window with different views. The conservation of the ivory windows of Sundari Chowk at the royal palace in Patan, Nepal
Regina Anna Friedl, Tatjana Bayerova, Gabriela Krist
Let’s pretend. Conservation of an experimental tortoiseshell imitation
Thijs Janssen
A trompe-l’oeil scagliola top on a three-legged support
Lisya Biçaçi, Jaap Boonstra
The conservation of a vinyl-upholstered chair: PVC degradation and conservation
Aura Colliander
Filling losses in granite linoleum with Beva 371
Julia Kun
Birch + paint = bamboo
Lois Warnow
Decorated paper on the inside of an eighteenth-century writing cabinet
Tirza Mol
Curiously engraven: the new art of japanning and an exploration of depictions of Asia in eighteenth-century London and Boston
Tara Cederholm
A Dutch seventeenth-century European lacquer cabinet. Material-technical analysis to gain insight into the deteriorated surface
Elise Andersson, Vincent Cattersel
Imitating aventurine: an eighteenth-century technique of lacquer imitation
Tristram Bainbridge