Carnets d'Atelier

How Lacquer Wall Art Is Made: Process, Layers, ...

How Lacquer Wall Art Is Made: Process, Layers, and Finish How Lacquer Wall Art Is Made: Process, Layers, and Finish Lacquer wall art is defined by process. The depth and...

How Lacquer Wall Art Is Made: Process, Layers, ...

How Lacquer Wall Art Is Made: Process, Layers, and Finish How Lacquer Wall Art Is Made: Process, Layers, and Finish Lacquer wall art is defined by process. The depth and...

What Is Lacquer Art? Materials, Process, and Wh...

What Is Lacquer Art? Materials, Process, and Why It Lasts What Is Lacquer Art? Materials, Process, and Why It Lasts Lacquer art is artwork created with layered lacquer finishes that...

What Is Lacquer Art? Materials, Process, and Wh...

What Is Lacquer Art? Materials, Process, and Why It Lasts What Is Lacquer Art? Materials, Process, and Why It Lasts Lacquer art is artwork created with layered lacquer finishes that...

Gold Leaf: The Language of Light

24-karat gold leaf, thinner than a whisper. The same water gilding technique used in French cathedrals and Khmer temples for a thousand years. Timing, pressure, breath — there is no...

Gold Leaf: The Language of Light

24-karat gold leaf, thinner than a whisper. The same water gilding technique used in French cathedrals and Khmer temples for a thousand years. Timing, pressure, breath — there is no...

The Buddhas of Prè Rup

In 2018, the APSARA Authority invited Eric Stocker to train conservation professionals at Prè Rup temple. Ancient techniques preserving ancient art — lacquer in the service of Angkor.

The Buddhas of Prè Rup

In 2018, the APSARA Authority invited Eric Stocker to train conservation professionals at Prè Rup temple. Ancient techniques preserving ancient art — lacquer in the service of Angkor.

Eggshell: A Grain at a Time

Crushed eggshell becomes mosaic. Fragments smaller than a grain of sand, placed with tweezers into wet lacquer, one by one. Thousands per piece. Patterns like cracked earth, like living skin

Eggshell: A Grain at a Time

Crushed eggshell becomes mosaic. Fragments smaller than a grain of sand, placed with tweezers into wet lacquer, one by one. Thousands per piece. Patterns like cracked earth, like living skin

Twenty-Five Years at the Mobilier National

How Eric Stocker spent 25 years restoring Imperial Chinese and Japanese lacquer for France's national museums — and what that taught him about permanence.

Twenty-Five Years at the Mobilier National

How Eric Stocker spent 25 years restoring Imperial Chinese and Japanese lacquer for France's national museums — and what that taught him about permanence.