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NATIONAL MARQUETRY EXHIBITION 2008 The 2008 National Marquetry Exhibition is this year being held at the Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent and will be hosted by that very friendly and highly successful bunch of marquetarians known to all as the Staffs Marquetry Group. The dates for the exhibition are from Saturday 3rd of May until Saturday 10th May 2008. (Please note that Saturday 10th will only be until 1. 00pm) With this May update we are bringing you all the information you will need to enjoy your visit to the 2008 National Exhibition. |
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"WE'VE HAD THIS PICTURE FOR YEARS, CAN YOU TELL US ANYTHING ABOUT IT?" (Plus further "BUCHSCHMID & GRETAUX INFORMATION") This question is often put to our editorial team - and I'm pleased to say that most of the time we are able to come up with an appropriate answer to the query. Even though we have extensive archives and abundant knowledge on all matters marquetry, sometimes we can get "caught out" when trying to identify the maker of an early and very individual piece. For this reason we introduced our "Can You Help?" page last year. This section of the web site has proved popular with our visitors, so for that reason we have expanded the facility. Thanks to your collective input, we have quite a considerable amount of BUCHSCHMID & GRETAUX information available on pages 2 to 8 of "Can You Help?" that will help to answer many of your questions on this mysterious company. Our May 2008 update brings you some new information on the life and work of Mr Gretaux. |
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MARQUETARIAN MAGAZINE INDEX Readers of the Marquetry Society's own publication, The Marquetarian, will find this new section of the web site extremely useful. With the help of The Marquetarian's editor, Ernie Ives, a complete index for virtually all of the publication's fifty year plus run has been compiled, and is now available on this web site. It is of necessity, a long document, but we have made it easier for you to use by placing an ABC, etc, selection at the top of the page so that you can reach the section you are interested in with just one click. Each entry is listed as follows: Title of article - Marquetarian issue number - page number For example: Circular tabletop 120/29, 130/32, 131/31
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NEW "WORLD OF MARQUETRY" ENTRIES We are pleased, this month, to welcome the input to our World of Marquetry pages from our Marquetarian friends in Brazil. The variations in marquetry techniques will amaze you, there is a lot of talent around this globe! The differences in styles are very inspiring - and are obviously amazingly good food for thought, especially if you are looking for new ideas to inspire you for your next great marquetry project. Click the link on the right to visit our "World of Marquetry" directory page >>> |
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EARLY NATIONAL EXHIBITION GALLERIES A wonderful cache of coloured slides taken at National Exhibitions from the 1960's up to a few years ago has come to light. Ivan Beer, Ernie Ives and Enrico have to be thanked for providing this excellent collection of early marquetry exhibits for us to enjoy. Ivan and Enrico are to be especially thanked for all of their hard work in converting every one of those slides into digital files - a mammoth task indeed! The first of those early galleries is now available on this web site for you to visit. This is the one for 1976. It is not a large gallery, but you will find many of that year's exhibits are displayed in the exhibition photos. New additions to these galleries will be added with each month's update. |
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April 2008 |
NEWS ARCHIVES Due to the large amount of news items we feature on this page, we have decided that it's now time to "slim down" this page so that it just displays the news for the current year. All the previous news items, including their links, are all still available on this site, but we have now archived them in their own dedicated section. This move should make finding the latest news much easier and will save you from scrolling down a long page to reach the links buttons at the foot of the page. It will also load the page a lot quicker for those with dial up connexions. You can reach the archives page by clicking the link on the right, or clicking in the "Click for News Archives" box above >>> |
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April 2008 |
NATIONAL EXHIBITION "ALL OTHER ENTRIES" GALLERY With this April 2008 update we have now added yet another "room" to the above gallery where you can see the last 6 entries - just click the appropriate link to visit "room 7" This new addition is a "first" for our web site. As well as our 2007 National Exhibition 'Winner's Gallery' we are now introducing an extra Gallery where we will be displaying all the rest of the entries from this year's National Exhibition. There are always well over one hundred entries from each National Exhibition that never get seen outside of the exhibition. This doesn't mean that they are not worth looking at just because they didn't win an award, far from it, indeed many of those entries would be up there with the best on a different day - it's just that there can only be a finite amount of winners at any one exhibition. To judge and enjoy these "other entries" for yourself, just click the link on the right. We have been adding ten randomly selected entries to the gallery with each update until, at last with this month, we eventually used every one of the 2007 National Exhibition entries. The 2008 National Exhibition takes place next month (May) and we will be adding the 2008 Gallery to this site as soon as possible after the exhibition closes. |
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April 2008 |
THE MARQUETRY SOCIETY INSIGNIA Ten years after it was first formed, the hierarchy of the Marquetry Society decided that it was about time that the society had a unique insignia or logo that would present its message to the world in a simple design. A competition was thus held and a suitable design was chosen from the many entries that were submitted. Click the link to read this fascinating story and check out the variations the insignia design went through to become today's familiar design >>> |
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January |
A CLIFF PENNY PICTURE Cliff Penny was one of the founding six members of the Marquetry Society, he was also the first "first place" winner of the Society's very first National Exhibition. This would theoretically have made Cliff our first "Rosebowl Winner" - at least, that would've been the case if the Rosebowl had been in existence at the time! Any marquetry pictures from those "first six" members of the Marquetry Society are as rare as the proverbial hen's teeth. So, it is with great pride that, with the valuable help of contributor and picture owner, Adrian, we are able to bring you a perfect example of a genuine Cliff Penny marquetry picture. Another "Lost" Cliff Penny picture has recently surfaced, we thank Gerry Everett for sending in this excellent quality example of Cliff's work. The picture, titled: "The Elizabethan Era" is available by visiting the link on the right. Just click the link on the right to see the work of one of our own history's great marquetarians >> |
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April 2008 |
JOE'S MARQUETRY THEMED WAISTCOAT Any of our USA members who attended exhibitions hosted by Joe Monks may well remember Joe's superb Marquetry Waistcoat. Joe very kindly "dug it out of its moth balled storage" and sent us a photo for our Memory Lane pages. To see Joe's very unique marquetry themed waistcoat click the link >>> |
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Current & Ongoing until 2009 |
MEMBERSHIP OFFER NOW CARRIED ON INTO ITS THIRD YEAR! A Continuing Offer for 2008: Due to the success of our "2 for 1" new membership only offer introduced in 2006, we have decided to extend this offer in to 2008. To take advantage of this offer become a NEW MEMBER of the Marquetry Society in 2008 and get your membership subscription for 2009 totally free!! It is a marvellous offer and is one we are sure that you will not want to miss. |
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DVD OFFER & Yet Another Superb Offer!: The Publicity Dept of the Marquetry Society is now making available for purchase DVD’s of all the award winning pictures and applied pieces that have been entered into our National Exhibitions from 2001 to last year's National Exhibition of 2007. The DVD’s are a fantastic reference library of the very best examples from today's marquetry that you will be pleased to own. Three DVD’s are currently available at £6.50 each (UK) & $15.00 (USA)
To purchase a copy of any of these DVD’s please contact our Publicity Dept by using the following pre-addressed e-mail form available by clicking the link on the right: >>> or, you can phone your requirements to a member of the Publicity Team at 01474 814217 |
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March 2008 |
VIKAR - MARQUETRY ARTIST
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March 2008 |
INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKING EXHIBITION 2008 The Marquetry Society hosted its usual stand at Alexandra Palace for the International Woodworkers Exhibition held during the month of February 2008. The exhibition was, as is always the case, very successful, and we're pleased to say, our stand attracted rather a lot of interest. Roy Murton of the Redbridge Group, who hosted the stand on the Saturday, took photos of the event and wrote a first hand report for the Redbridge Group web site. We have linked in to the Redbridge web site so that you can read the report, but don't forget to return here when you have finished reading it!! |
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February 2008 |
LEN PAGE - A MEMBER OF THE FOUNDING SIX Along with Cliff Penny, who we featured in January's update, we are introducing you to another of those six people who started the Marquetry Society back in 1952. Len was much admired and respected by every member of the Marquetry Society who knew him, and, although he never won the highest of the awards at the National Exhibitions, his work was esteemed and valued nonetheless. A tireless worker on behalf of the society, Len remained true to his marquetry principles all his life. To see a rare photo of Len, and to read a, then, contemporary report of Len's marquetry interests, click the link on the right >> |
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January 2008 |
THE MARQUETARIAN NUMBER 1 In conjunction with the series currently featuring in today's Marquetarian, we are including a reprint of the entire contents from edition number 1 of the Marquetarian. The magazine began its existence in 1953, and hasn't missed a single issue from that day to this. Click the link on the right to enjoy a good hour or two's read: |
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Ongoing |
E-MAIL CONTACT DETAILS If you have any questions you would like to ask us, or queries about anything contained in this web site, please feel free to e-mail us by using the pre addressed form that will appear when you click the link on the right. Thank you. To contact the Marquetry Society Web Site please click the e-mail link on the right if you are using the standard Microsoft Outlook Express: If however you are using a different E-mail system then just copy and paste the following address in to your "send to" box: mqstymail@redbridgemarquetrygroup.org or, if that is not possible, then just type it in as seen above, thanks. |
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