Nicolas Aubagnac
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precious lacquer
a jewel
When designing the Comète pedestal table, I wanted a truly geometric purity, perfectly timeless, so that the lacquerer's work of embellishment would be complete.
The object sparkles like a jewel.
A subtle gradient from light to dark adorns the sides of the pedestal table, and rises to the top, decorated with a lacquer that I named "flake" because it brought back my memory of raindrops falling on the asphalt after a storm.
I have since discovered that the Japanese had already mastered this technique in the 18th century by projecting drops of lacquer in different layers before sanding them together.
Snowflake lacquer tray, "emerald"«
base: patinated metal
L = D = 23.62 | H = 23.62 in
Inspired by Japanese lacquer masters
To create this lacquered wooden side table, we used the centuries-old skills of a master lacquerer with whom we developed a material effect inspired by ancient Japanese techniques:
The lacquer is sprayed in droplets, and the overlapping layers of different colors reappear as the surface is sanded, creating this flake effect.
It looks as if the table has been showered with delicately colored pigments…
