Mail holder in thuja, Art Deco style

Thuya mail holder in art deco style one drawer, three letter compartments, 4 pen compartments excellent condition 20cm long —- a little history one of the first uses of thuja was for the construction of the ceilings of beautiful homes or mosques, as we can still see it in traditional houses, and also as we can find it in some of the rooms of the dar liouba. then thuja was used for the manufacture of chests, boxes, furniture, which could be left in its natural state, varnished or painted. At the end of the 19th century, some marqueters from Salé joined Essaouira, bringing with them their centuries-old traditions of marquetry and inlays of motifs, most often geometric, in ivory or ebony for the oldest, in mother-of-pearl, sometimes in wire. silver and now more commonly lemon wood.

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