When I went to Chocolate School, several chefs were working on fancy desserts, their work would be on the table at lunch time, and there were a couple of them that nobody wanted to cut into because they were so artistic, but they wanted comments about their taste as well as their appearance.

I like the 'eye' one with the blueberries in the middle. An interesting take on a lattice crust. I also like the black-and-white crust that I think is a lattice.

There's an all-butter dough recipe in the sample available on Amazon, it uses an egg and some vinegar

She has a website with some of her pies, some with instructions, and more pictures, including some of them after they're baked. There was an Elegant Pie calendar a few years ago but doesn't appear to be one for 2024.

She builds the fancy tops on a round flat surface then freezes it before transferring it to the top of the pie. And she does glue the loose pieces down with a little egg white.