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| James Mont Style 3 Panel Chinese Screen - 1960 |
An example of Mont's cerusing technique. The oak is first bleached, then sandblasted and rubbed with chalky pigments to create the appearance of silk moiré.
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| James Mont - Credenza. Asian-inspired fret-work raised on Greek key platform base, ca1960 |
Master of amazing effects - Mont’ was a master of creative finishing techniques. The lacquerwork, done in painstaking layers, is typical Mont and he supposedly perfected his wood-finishing technique in prison workshops.
Lacquered pieces took a monumental effort and were coated with as many as fourteen layers of resin, which craftsmen hand-sanded and polished between each coat. He would stain a furniture piece of wood, then rub it with a chalk, and finally colour it with pigment to pick up the pattern in the grain.
His metal-leafed pieces are extraordinary. Mont was known for applying layers of color (pale green, blue, lavender, yellow) beneath his gold leaf and burnishing it until it was almost transparent.
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| James Mont chairs. i can see Lana Turner loving them.... |
Lana Turner loved james Mont's style
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| Gilt Chinoiserie Lamps in the Manner of James Mont, 1940 |
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| James Mont wall mirror |
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| James Mont Arm Chair |
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| Low Lotus Table by James Mont |
