A commissioned marquetry 4’ x 6’ wall art panel with domestic, exotic, and processed wood veneers with an educational component.
The ‘Polytree’ has 32 full-scale leaf images rendered from the most commonly harvested North American woods. Each particular leaf image, made from that specific wood. Some veneer edges are sand shaded (charred) to add depth of dimension to the leaves.
These 32 domestic woods and thier varieties are also represented in the smaller veneer squares directly above and below the main tree image.
The side rows of square specimens have 99 different squares of raw exotic wood veneers from around the world, and 5 ‘designer’ or reconstructed dyed wood veneers, all listed alphabetically, top to bottom, left to right, and were supplied by HPVA, Certainly Woods, B and B Rare woods, Alpi, and Tabu dyed veneers from Italy.
There is an educational ‘find the wood’ interactive I-pad display to accompany this marquetry panel, which is hanging at the Hardwood Plywood and Veneer Association lobby in Virginia, USA.
Dimensions: 6′ (183cm) wide x 4′ (122cm) tall
Finish: Conversion lacquer, Satin buff.
Materials: 32 Domestic veneers, 99 exotic veneers, 5 reconstructed/dyed veneers laminated onto medex core.
Domestic woods on the tree image and on top and bottom bars:
1. Alder- Red Alnus rubra
2. Ash- white(A), burl(B) Fraxinus americana
3. Basswood- Tilia americana
4 Birch- plain(A), rotary(B) betula alleghaniensis
5. Butternut- Juglans cinerea
6. Cedar- western red(A), aromatic(B) Thuja plicata
7. Cherry – black, plain(A), figured(B) Prunus serotina
8. Chestnut – Castanea dentata
9. Douglas Fir- Pseudotsuga menziesii
10. Elm- Red/Slippery- plain(A), burl(B), golden(C) Ulmus rubra
11. Gum- Red Liquidambar styraciflua
12. Hemlock – Tsuga heterophylla
13. Hickory- nutmeg Carya myristiciformis
14. Holly- Ilex opaca
15. Koa- acacia koa
16. Maple- hard/sugar plain(A), quilted(B), birdseye(C) Acer saccharum
17. Maple- soft/red Acer rubrum
18. Madrona- Arbutus menziesii
19. Myrtle- plain(A), burl(B) Umbellularia californica
20. Oak Red- plain(A), rift,(B), rotary(C), burl(D) Quercus
21. Oak White- quartered(A), rotary(B) Quercus alba
22. Persimmon- Diospyros virginiana
23. Pine- eastern /sugar (knotty) pinus strobus
24. Pine- table mountain (Carolina Yellow) pinus pungens
25. Poplar- white rotary (A) greenheart(B) Liriodendron tulipifera
26. Redwood- quartered (A) burl (B) Sequoia sempervirens
27. Sassafrass- Sassafras albidum
28. Spruce- Picea rubens
29. Sycamore- platanus occidentalis
30. Tupelo- black gum, Nyssa silvatica
31. Walnut- plain(A), burl(A) juglass nigra
32. Yew- Taxus brevifolia
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