Lacquer is a layer of shellac mixed with alcohol that's used to coat higher-end pieces of furniture. It most often looks shiny, but can also look matte, depending on the process of application.

Slow Lacquer Thinner Costs Upwards of $50.00 a Gallon. At $50 per gallon, using a premium-grade slow lacquer thinner to clean spray guns or pressure pots is foolish but, in a pinch, would work to ...

Last month, an intriguing, black lacquer bed with a swooping silhouette, part of a sale at Christie’s, was all over my Instagram feed. It was Jean Dunand's 1932 bed Aux Nenuphars (With ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- You'll often hear debate about which chemical finishing product is superior: polyurethane or lacquer. Certainly, each finish possesses its own advantages and disadvantages ...

Beauty really is skin-deep at Atelier Midavaine, a Parisian workshop that creates bespoke lacquer finishes for high-end furniture and paneling. The workshop, in Paris’s 17th Arrondissement and a ...

Lacquer progress? These days the use of high-VOC paints (volatile organic compound) such as nitrocellulose lacquers is strictly regulated, though those regulations differ significantly depending on ...

Some experts fear that a fire last week at a lacquer manufacturing plant in Banning, Calif., could lead to a worldwide shortage in vinyl LPs. Apollo Masters fire could spell doom for vinyl LP boom ...

Phạm Chính Trung: Usually, traditional lacquer painters, if they've understood the technique and a clear idea of their initial sketch, can be in control of 80% of their idea, ...

Lacquer is commonplace in Asian art museums; the Freer and Sackler own many objects that gleam with the resinous varnish. But most of them are lacquer-coated boxes, vessels or furniture, usually ...

But lacquer's long-term prospects depend just as much on the fresh ideas and grass-roots efforts of people like Tsutsumi. Over the past few years, he has mobilized to a loose network of designers ...

The scene outside Apollo Masters Corp. earlier this month after a fire destroyed more than 70 percent of the lacquer plates used in vinyl production. Robert Bauer/RIBsfit Media.