Atelier Gérald Ganay
The Gerald Ganay workshop, specializing in the restoration of gilded wood opens its doors.
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Specific amendment to the restoration

Restore a work of art requires traditional skills, the same as that used by the original artist.

The manual skills, artistic sensibility and knowledge of art history are essential to making a work identity. It is not only repair : it is to revive, which requires a minimum of talent.

The techniques of the trade vary the times and works from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. These are the sets that characterize periods and to preserve the original beauty of the work must understand, analyze and restore.

These periods were demanding in the style of decoration since each king imposed his style. For example, Louis XIV style is simple in design with a reproduction of nature and following the scrolls while the Louis XVI style brings more leaves and flowers leaves.


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