Blog Posts about Alison Elizabeth Taylor

Marquetry Art Juxtaposed

How the Studiolo from Gubbio inspired Alison Elizabeth Taylor's "Room" Alison Elizabeth Taylor's remarkable story Taylor was born in 1974 in Selma, Alabama and grew up in Las Vegas. She earned a BFA in 2001 from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and an MFA in 2005 from Columbia University. While in graduate school, she taught herself wood inlay techniques by reading hobby books and researching online. She was inspired by a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she encountered the conserved and reconstructed 15th century studiolo, or study, from the ducal palace...