Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...

In Egypt, decorative mother-of-pearl was used at least as far back as 4200 B.C., but the use of pearls themselves seems to have been later, perhaps related to the Persian conquest in the fifth ...

Van Cleef & Arpels lacquered butterfly Hanashobu clips in 18k yellow gold, white mother-of-pearl, lacquer and diamonds,POA, vancleefarpels.com Stone and wood carver Graham Heeley crafted the ...

This creates a material called nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, which encases the irritant and protects the mollusc from it. When pearls are cultured commercially an irritant is manually inserted ...

Yes, this is actual mother of pearl. [Interviewer] Wow. Made by Loewe. Jonathan Anderson's vision for this was to have me in mother of pearl, which, coincidentally, is my birth stone. [Interviewer ...

By secreting layers of aragonite and conchiolin, the same substances that are in its calcium carbonate shell, the mollusc creates a material called nacre, commonly known as mother-of-pearl. The oyster ...

This is where I'd like to make the case for serving trays. Everyone has different tastes and every room is unique, but ...

“My mother was an interior designer as well ... (Carroll also recommends a red lacquer tray on a coffee table, or red pillow ...

Could his mother Natalia's wedding dress be any indication of what his bride will wear? Hugh Grosvenor's mother Natalia wore a ruffled dress and tiara when she married Gerald Grosvenor in 1978.

1982). Working in the precise and fine medium of nacre (aka, mother-of-pearl) lacquer inlay, Jian’s practice bridges historical and contemporary work to the extent that it might be considered an ...

A Work of Substance has designed a bubble tea shop with a dark olive green facade called Mother Pearl. When sipping bubble tea, the spring-loaded pearls of tapioca instantly demands our attention.