Jean-Luc Le Mounier, Contemporary Jewel Box with Finely Embroidered Doors

Behind all of Le Mounier’s’s creations “there is an idea, a story”—a highly personal experience ranging as far afield as his travels or his meetings. In this case, the artist evokes ...

By employing ever-more complex techniques, wedding rare species of wood and precious metals in novel arrangements, and endowing each piece with incredible components, Jean-Luc Le Mounier creates work, astonishing and seductive in equal measure, that pushes the frontier of his craft into the realm of art. This exciting exploration is perhaps best-evidenced by Papillon pieces, Le Mounier’s series of inimitable cabinets, all rendered by his expert hand, and featuring doors carved into the shape of a butterfly’s wings. This particular iteration features wings covered in black straw marquetry, a delicate inner gate wrought of antiqued bronze, and a sumptuous interior of lemon ceylon wood.

By employing ever-more complex techniques, wedding rare species of wood and precious metals in novel arrangements, and endowing each piece with incredible components, Jean-Luc Le Mou...

From his Empreinte Collection, a series of pieces centered around a theme of destruction and reconstruction, this six-legged bench is composed of patinated bronze cast from broken an...

1980s Spanish console with brass doors and mirrors.

A southwestern French Louis XV period painted buffet à deux-corps from the mid-18th century with chicken wire and pantalonnière. Born in the southwestern region of France that includ...

1970s four-door and eight-drawer gilt brass and mirror studded console by renowned artisan Gony Nava, as in the style of Rodolfo Dubarry.

18th century Serpentine two-door cabinet.