The highly artistic parquet rosette is fabricated by three cabinet-makers as a one specimen. This medallion is intended for decorating of a central part of a parquetry composition in grand halls. The time spent by the masters for execution of this rosette is near 2000 hours of manual work, not including the time needed for preparation of materials and elaboration of the project. This piece of art features a magnificent curvilinear and geometrical pattern executed in the best traditions of craftsmasters in the XVII-XVIII th c enturies. This rosette is created after the original rosette which decorates an interior of the Pavlovsk Palace Museum (former residence of Russian Emperor Paul I) near St. Petersburg. After a thorough studying of the original, the masters, while making their own specimen, have employed, in the perfection aim, the following innovations:
1. The careful art selection of riftly sawn materials.
2. The art burning of separate wooden details in the all thickness to obtain a three-dimensional effect in a plane mosaic.
3. The coloured engraving in a fine manner, executed with a natural wood in the all thickness of mosaic.
This article is distinguished by a very accurate (practically ideal) adjusting of mosaic elements. During the realization of a work, the masters have used natural native woods (pear, maple, plane, etc.) and also, exotic woods (such as red sandal, violet amaranth, three kinds of black wood: ebony, wengue, zebrano, etc.) which are the species of tropical and subtropical countries. In all, 23 species of wood were employed. The rosette is richly decorated with inserts of semi-precious materials: ivory, nacre from mother-of-pearl, malachite of Zaire.
By its structure, the rosette is executed from ashwood ground, 8.3 thick, on the surface of which the coloured mosaic, 6.7 mm thick, is applied.
The total thickness of the article: 15 mm. Quantity of curvilinear inserts: 1227 units. Quantity of geometrical details: 473 units. Diameter of the rosette: 1800 mm.