Once considered “over the top” and “showy," lacquer is making a comeback. The finish is now considered to be both modern and current and is being used in a variety of spaces in the home, from living ...

Makeup artists explain how and when to use each lip product. Both give a shiny finish. Both are applied similarly. So what gives? What's the difference between the two? Are they both used differently?

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 Waterlilies), ...

Read expert advice to keep your furniture gleaming. Gone (thankfully!) are the days of having each room of your home feel like it's out of Rooms To Go, where everything matches, and everything is a ...

In my first two blogs, I discussed that lacquer thinner is actually a combination of different chemicals. These chemicals fall into two categories. They can be diluent solvents and, thus, dilute the ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Sơn mài is a traditional Vietnamese form of lacquer painting created using a toxic lacquer harvested from one region of the country. It requires ...

SHIOJIRI, Nagano Prefecture--When artisan Yusuke Iwahara decided to customize his Harley-Davidson, he didn’t just coat the motorcycle’s fuel tank and handlebars with “urushi” lacquer. He even applied ...

I was having a conversation with one of my customers about spraying a conversion varnish (Krystal, from M.L. Campbell) and the problems he was having with getting it to lay down nicely after it was ...