Knowhow and professions in crafts and restauration

How to take care and preserve gilded and polychrome wood
How to protect your mirrors, seats, consoles, statues, icons, pendulums, coverings, stuccos, and other gilded objects. Recommendations by Donatienne LURQUIN L’or est éternel, inaltérable, inoxydable, mais quand il est posé à la feuille … : Son …

IT SHINES BUT … IS IT GOLD?
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PROFESSION OF GILDER, GILDING THROUGH HISTORY, HOW TO RECOGNIZE GOLD LEAF, HOW TO TAKE CARE AND PRESERVE GILDED OBJECTS, HOW GOLD LEAF IS PRODUCED AND WHICH ARE THE …

Watch out for the gilding
Everything that shines (or is golden) is not gold! Some ways to knowingly identify your “gilding” By Donatienne Lurquin – Atelier du Bois Doré – Gilded wood restorer Si la feuille d’or à la détrempe …

INTERNATIONAL CHARTER FOR THE CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF MONUMENTS AND SITES
(THE VENICE CHARTER 1964) IInd International Congress of Architects and Technicians of Historic Monuments, Venice, 1964. Adopted by ICOMOS in 1965. Imbued with a message from the past, the historic monuments of generations of people …