Gan has collaborated with luxury brands to integrate lacquerwork with new materials and designs. For example, he applied the ...

Luxury has often turned to unusual organic materials. In Renaissance Europe artisans created wonders for princely kunstkammer ...

The British royal family has a history of receiving unique and extravagant gifts from around the world. These offerings, ...

Paul I lived in the Mikhailovsky Castle for only forty days. And Peter I came up with a project for a mansion on the seashore ...

French Louis XV Chinese commode with a veined marble top over a bombe case, decorated in lacquer with a multi-story pagoda in a ri ...

With its digressive text boxes, sketches and photographs ... The maps that appear beneath this lacquer are political minefields. Does Taiwan belong to China or is it a sovereign state? Where does ...