FURNITURE RESTORATION - SCIENCE, ART, CHALLENGE
Part 3: Restoration of a Side Table

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

Ramona Elena DUMITRASCU
Ing.drd. - Universitatea Transilvania din Brasov - Facultatea de Industria Lemnului
Address: B-dul Eroilor 29, 500036 Brasov, Romania
E-mail: r.dumitrascu@unitbv.ro

Alina ALDESCU
Ing. Proiectant - S.C. MENOTTI S.R.L.
Address: Str. Pipera Tunari Bucuresti
E-mail: aldeasca@yahoo.com

Motto: "There is no love without knowledge..."
Madeleine Hours, Secrets of masterpieces, 1982

Abstract:The paper presents the restoration of a side table, a furniture object of a special beauty and elegance. This belongs to the rustic Austrian Tyrolese style and was made in Wien, most probably in the second part of the XIX-th Century, as attested by a partially readable inscription found on the back of the table top. The table taken out of use and stored in totally inappropriate conditions was in an advanced degradation state, presenting a lot of defects of the solid wood substrate, of the surface veneer and finish. Inadequate earlier interventions led to a change of the original aspect. The present restoration aimed at bringing the object to a state as similar as possible to its original one, maintaining a maximum of the original elements and the historical information, as well as its conservation by adequate bio protection treatments.

Key words: furniture, restoration and conservation, restoration concept.

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