FURNITURE RESTORATION -SCIENCE, ART, CHALLENGE Part 1: General Principles and Case Studies

Maria Cristina TIMAR
Prof. dr. chem. - Universitatea "Transilvania" din Brasov - Facultatea de Industria Lemnului
Address: B-dul Eroilor 29, 500036 Brasov
E-mail: cristinatimar@unitbv.ro

Abstract: At the same time science and art, furniture restoration and conservation finds itself a corresponding place as importance in the general context of conservation of cultural heritage and tradition, through the artistic, technical, historical and documentary value associated to the furniture objects. The present paper offers to the reader the minimum necessary information to understand the complexity and importance of furniture restoration activity, with characteristic particularities resulted from the double aesthetical and functional valence of the furniture objects as well as from their complexity in terms of materials diversity, structure, techniques of manufacturing, decorating and finishing. The general technical principles of restoration and the methods of scientific investigation useful for elaborating the restoration concept are briefly presented. Some restoration techniques are exemplified by a brief presentation of three restoration cases solved by the dedicated work of the students of the Faculty of Wood Industry from Brasov.

Key words: restoration, conservation, technical principles, restoration concept, restoration cases.

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