Thousands of years ago, artisans devised ways to create objects decorated with exquisite inlays of wood, stone, metal, shell, ivory and other materials. They would carve out a recess and fill it with ...

Over the past two decades, watchmaking’s ancient métiers d’art—the decorative techniques used to embellish watches—have undergone a renaissance that has revitalized traditional crafts such as ...

A variety of woods are used to make marquetry, from seventy to eighty species, with a variety of colors, and sometimes camel bone, seashells, copper, brass, silver, gold, and ivory are incorporated to ...

Hermès has forged a niche in watchmaking that no other brand could ever replicate thanks to its unique source of inspiration. Its métiers d’art dials reproduce the popular designs on its iconic silk ...

Cyrille Diatkine reinterpreted Françoise Faconnet’s 1963 design, breaking down and alternating the original motifs to form a kind of ‘orderly chaos’ Hermès’ famous Astrologie Nouvelle silk scarf, ...