17mc03-MT-2016_Caravino, Castello di Masino (FAI), Textile furniture (Chamber of the Ambassador of Austria)

Facilitated description:

 

The 12 chairs, 8 armchairs and 1 sofa are made of silk and wood. 
The chairs, armchairs and the sofa were made in the Piedmontese fabric workshops at the end of the 1700s. 
The chairs, armchairs and the sofa are kept at the Castle of Masino in Caravino in the room of the Ambassador of Austria. 
The castle of Masino is an asset of the Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano (FAI).
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre carried out a maintenance (small interventions) on the furnishings in 2016. 
The restorers cleaned the fabric parts of the dust. 
They reinforced the weak and ruined tissue.

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Restoration

The extraordinary maintenance project of the textile equipment of the castle of Masino involved the furnishings of different environments (Camera del Vicerè, Camera delle Tre Finestre, Camera degli Ambasciatori di Spagna, Camera degli Ambasciatori d'Austri, Ballroom, Sala dei Gobelins, Camera da letto della Regina). In particular, in the Chamber of the Ambassador of Austria, an intervention was planned on the following works: four-poster bed (carried out in 2014), 12 chairs, 8 armchairs and 1 sofa. All the furnishings of the room are covered with a silk satin with beige and cream stripes on which the cleaning and consolidation operations have been carried out. 

The intervention was carried out in line with the conservation methods already expressed in the planned maintenance sites of the other residences of the FAI (Villa del Balbianello, Villa Fogazzano Roi, Villa Della Porta Bozzolo, Villa Necchi Campiglio).