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Luxury Blüthner Piano Designs Worldwide

The Supreme Edition by Blüthner

Blüthner offers a series of traditional art cases known as the Supreme Edition. These may be selected and refined with your choice of elegant wood veneer and inlays. These designs are already available for your selection or may be further customized to your specific taste. Ten supremely crafted Models of authentically ornate hand carving and aesthetic tradition.

Adorning your piano is a personal expression.

All that you see, you may also decorate. Vibrant colors, metallic finishes, and detailed artwork compliment traditional, historical, modern and even transparent design forms. Wood veneer or air brush effects can cover nearly any piece. The Blüthner craftsmen are masters of the traditional and the modern alike. From stately veneers and hand-carved marquetry to the most innovative and modern creative forms, Blüthner will help you realize your aesthetic vision, always with the world-class performance of the Blüthner Golden Tone.

A Selection of Wood Veneers

Here is just a sampling of our favourite wood veneers. From the stately to the exotic, we are always in pursuit of the finest sources. Virtually any known wood veneer can be requested and obtained. Veneers can be applied to the entire instrument in a book-matched symentrical pattern or selected for individual case parts as a highlight. Inlays may also be crafted from wood veneer.

Customizing the Classic or Supreme  Blüthner Grand

The traditional wooden case of a Blüthner grand piano offers ample opportinities for designs, customization and new creations.

Customization FAQ & Resources

Here we offer you some of our most sought after resources for planning your dream piano.

An ornate hand-carved piano arm design

Luxurious Hand-Carved Details

The tone of a piano design must resonate down to the finest details. While all flat, curved and faceted surfaces are precisely fit with a fine layer of exhibition quality wood veneer, lathing and hand carving come into play wherever convex or concave forms are desired. These elements are hand-sculpted out of solid wooden blocks to accent your very own bespoke piano design.

Gold Leaf Applicae

Gold leaf pairs with a traditional Roccoco white and gold style case aesthetic, or it can be added to accent virtually any design. How much or how little is used is a matter of personal preference.   

Accents that Draw the Eye

Less is not more, less is enough. Less is the perfectly measured amount of a beautiful thing, tailored with care to create refinement. Here we use small details, like a burled walnut cheeckblock, to adorn an otherwise traditional high gloss black piano polish.

Inlays: Drawing in wood and metal

Special projects often make use of various inlaid materials to display personal messages, symbols and more intricate designs. Inlaid brass lettering is often used to set a personal dedication or inscription into the case or fallboard. Wood inlays may also provide a particularly elegant way to display logos, crests and other designs. Even altering the wood grain pattern of a veneered accent piece can...

Historic Music desk

The Hand-carved Julius Desk Julius Blüthner designed and carved this gardenscape into his music desk in ca. 1882 and it endured until the 1920's. Its peaceful scene has become a hallmark of the classic Blüthner instrument and recognized by Blüthner owners and admirers around the world.

In Pursuit of the finest wood grain

The search for the most exquisite wood veneers is an organic, global pursuit. Once found, they are handled with painstaking care in order to create breathtaking design masterpieces.

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Julius Blüthner Pianofortefabrik GmbH

Dechwitzer Straße 12

04463 Großpösna b. Leipzig, Germany

Phone

+(49) 34297 75130

email us at

info@bluethner.de