Finishes that stand out beg to be looked at and to be touched. With a little time and patience a lustrous lacquer finish can beautify almost any woodwork. Lacquer is a good indoor finish because it ...

Lacquer art is widely applied in the making of various items, such as ornamental boxes. [Photo provided to China Daily] Editor's note: Traditional arts and crafts are supreme examples of Chinese ...

The author is a Tokyo correspondent of the JoongAng Ilbo. Watching the restless brushwork of the seated person made me hold my breath. She had a shiny wooden vessel in one hand and used a flat brush ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “The human being is not pure intellect,” Eileen Gray, modernist architect, designer and one of the great lacquer ...