Bespoke shotguns are distinguished by their exquisite materials--walnut stocks and barrels inlaid with gold--and by their detail.
At the center was a wheel-shaped ballotine of chicken, inlaid with chicken liver, foie gras and Louisiana crayfish.
Guests' staterooms, done in maple-inlaid oak, have been polished to their original luster.
It performs admirably as a regular trackpad as well, and executes multitouch gestures more reliably than most inlaid pointers.
Martin has also started a custom shop for the musician who wants, say, his own name inlaid in mother-of-pearl into the fingerboard.
Our tour takes in the Rajput Suite, for which craftsmen were brought from Udaipur in Rajasthan to restore the ornate inlaid marble flooring.
Think of a wooden box that is as large as a foot square, with intricate inlaid geometric designs and patterns of special woods.
FORBES: Japanese Secret Boxes: The Coolest Security Puzzles for Kids and Adults
Collectors may also glom on to Jean Dunand's vases, many of which he inlaid by crushing eggshells and shaping the fragments into abstract shapes.
WSJ: Christie's to Auction Steven Greenberg's Art Deco Collection
The large sword pommel is made from iron and inlaid with plaques of gold foil and is believed to be from an Anglo-Saxon sword.
The collection includes the famous Ruby Dagger, which is inlaid with nearly 2, 400 precious stones and may have been worn by the Emperor Jahangir himself.
The very apparent connection is that the inlaid screen of the WiiU controller allows for similar functionality, but on closer examination, is this really a competitor?
FORBES: Microsoft Gives No Hint at a New Console During E3 Keynote, Focuses on 'Smart Glass' Instead
The massive wood doors of this private house sported inlaid stars, compass points I convinced myself were leading me somewhere, but the entrance was firmly locked.
You can sit at intricately inlaid Damascene tables or recline on divans in front of engraved copper trays, in a room filled with antique books and Ottoman lamps.
The pieces have free-flowing edges, dovetail joinery, inlaid butterfly-shaped bridges of contrasting wood that stop natural cracks from spreading and at least four coats of a hand-rubbed oil finish.
These products of Hakone are exquisitely designed wooden boxes with inlaid intricate images in complex patterns that mask the secret panels that are the key to eventually gaining access to the contents inside.
FORBES: Japanese Secret Boxes: The Coolest Security Puzzles for Kids and Adults
They are part neighbourhood association centre, part temple, part community foundation, and almost always decorated in coiling dragons, paintings of Immortals, Confucian sages, Taoist demigods and Buddhist scripture, photos of ancestors and inlaid classical Chinese script.
The show includes one spurious work that Mr. Wilson thinks the collector bought knowingly a 20th-century imitation of an ancient turquoise-inlaid bronze plaque with "taotie" (a mask motif) from the late Erlitou culture, Henan province, 1800-1600 B.
WSJ: The Craft Collector | One Man's Search for Ancient China | Sackler Gallery | By Lee Rosenbaum
People in the car business tell me this reflects the rise of ambient lighting in cars, including dashboards inlaid with luminous strips and LEDs scattered in cup holders, foot wells and everywhere else around vehicle interiors.
There are inlaid camel-head benches and painted peacock-and-lion chairs from Rajasthan, a table made from a traditional Indian four-poster bed decorated with embroidered cloth of gold, Hindu devotional paintings, showcases housing exquisite jewellery and carved peasant objects.
Escorted to our room by an elegant receptionist, the folds of whose sari swished across the checkered marble floor as she walked, we passed through a library lined with teak and rosewood bookshelves and furnished with a table inlaid with marquetry of breathtaking intricacy and skill.
FORBES: Taj Falaknuma Palace: A New Experience of Palatial Splendor
In my new novel "Tiger Rag, " Charles "Buddy" Bolden (a fictionalized version of the jazz pioneer) plays the trumpet's precursor, the cornet, which I describe on page two: the carefully calibrated valves, the mouthpiece, the bell triple-silver-plated on the outside, gold-plated on the inside, the finger pieces of inlaid pearl.
WSJ: Novelist Nicholas Christopher on Writing About Music | Word Craft
For the museum's Pacific Hall, set to reopen in the fall, Ms. Ide came up with the idea to put a large map on a new wood floor, inlaid with images of islands and letters in contrasting wood to draw visitors into the sweep of the original Pacific migration to Hawaii.
应用推荐