Fine Fettling

I hope you find these additions to the series on inlay banding by Buffard Frères more and more interesting. Every time I look at them I find bands that are wonderful for their proportions. Most of these bands again involve rectilinear cuts but generate a large number of different patterns that only scratch the [...]

This group of mosaic banding used for furniture inlays is more varied in both the use of wood species and in the patterns generated. The basic unit of construction of the bands on Page 4 is the parallelogram which is used in a simple repeating internal unit bounded top and bottom by thin bands of [...]

The first three pages of wood banding by Buffard Frères in the catalogue contain fairly simple bands that were offered in a number of widths. The more interesting bands in this series have interesting wood used for the ground “colour”. I am guessing from the colour lithographs but on Plate 1 the different size bands [...]