The dial, after all, is center stage. Chopard’s new L.U.C XP Urushi Year of the Ox timepiece captivates the imagination at first glance with an engaging décor that employs an age-old lacquering ...

However, the traditional production process involved in producing urushi is labour-intensive, time-consuming and expensive. The time-honoured way of producing lacquer is difficult because that it ...

The floorboards came from another century-old house my carpenter worked on, and with his help I refinished them with urushi, lacquer made from the sap of urushi trees. I splurged on a new wood stove ...

The process begins with carefully polishing up the damaged area, then filling it with a mix of urushi tree sap (Japanese lacquer) and binding flour. The cup is left to dry and harden in a ...

Kurono is the accessible brand of Hajime Asaoka, the sensei of independent Japanese watchmaking. This 37mm threesome offers traditional Japanese urushi lacquer dials within a smooth case. The deep ...

In 2019, Max Lamb spent a lot of time in Japan – not for a sabbatical or a holiday, but to master the Urushi techniques of the craftspeople living in Wajima, in Ishikawa prefecture, on the northern ...

She fell first for a blue shimmery Conway Stewart for about US$670 (RM4,359) and then couldn’t help buying two pens from Bob ...

Looking for things to do this month? Check out L.A. Fashion Week, a pop-up of Japanese ceramics, and more.