Word: mother-of-pearl
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From Pious to Pornographic. Other craftsmen turned to such materials as silver inlays, precious stones, mother-of-pearl and exotic hardwoods to produce intricate designs and motifs that ranged from the pious to the pornographic, often decorating the hidden inside pieces of the guns with motifs to match designs on the outside. Like Europe's great furniture makers, the best gunmakers also turned out pattern books of designs, which were slavishly copied by other craftsmen for decades. In the 1740s, for instance, Russian court gunsmiths were still using 1670 French designs to ornament a pair of gold-plated...
...assemble his show and visited 300 studios across the country, believes that the key trend emerging from the diversity of his exhibit is the artist's increasing rapport with and involvement in advanced technology. Larry Bell's clear, untitled glass boxes, for example, gleam like mother-of-pearl, thanks to optical coating methods developed by industry technicians. Many other works were assembled by technicians from artists' instructions or, like the Samaras Corridor, built by museum craftsmen working from the artists' blueprints...
...Fresh Egg. The only daughter of a wealthy rice broker in North Viet Nam and the wife of a civil servant, Mme. Xa grew up "studying like a man" in a house filled with rosewood and mother-of-pearl paneling and glass windows "as blue as the sky." Strictly chaperoned, she learned social work, painted landscapes, wrote poems to the Virgin Mary-and, at age 14, snatched away the billy club of a policeman beating a street peddler. Her family supported the Viet Minh war for independence, then was turned out of house and home by the victorious Communists...
...presented the other side of the case too: one man who claims he was in a flying saucer said the inside is lined with mother-of-pearl plastic, "like we put on toilet seats...
...third dimension to the cubism of Braque and Picasso, produced in the years that followed a 1,000-piece gallery of fluid and generally bulbous angularities (among the best-known: The Boxer and Gondolier), developing many popular techniques, such as the use of hunks of glass and mother-of-pearl, tunneling holes through anatomy long before Henry Moore; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...