08mc09-AL-2014_Santena, Castello Cavour, Archive cabinet, inv. II/262

Facilitated description: 

 

The archive cabinet is a wooden cabinet with 5 paper containers that are used to hold documents. 
The furniture was made in the early 1800s. 
The furniture is kept at Castello Cavour in Santena. 
The restorers of the La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the furniture in 2014-2016. 
The restorers placed the furniture in an anoxic chamber, an oxygen-free chamber used to eliminate wood-eating insects. 
They cleaned the furniture of the dust. 
They cleaned the metal parts with chemicals. 
They glued the parts of the paper containers that were peeling off.
They rebuilt the handle of one of the paper containers.
They covered the wood holes caused by the wood-eating insects. 
They put a product against wood-fed insects.
In the end they put a protective substance to protect the furniture from the sun's rays and dust. 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Restoration

The intervention on the archival furniture is part of the restoration of the furnishings of the bedroom and study of Cavour del Castello di Santena on the occasion of the refurbishment of the entire residence. 
The restoration of the furniture began with a disinfestation in the anoxic chamber for a period of three weeks. The removal of atmospheric deposits with rubbers and vacuum cleaners was followed. The metal parts were cleaned by immersion in solution to eliminate oxidation. 
The paper files were consolidated in the vicinity of the uprisings and dealt with in correspondence with the gaps with paper pulp intoned with watercolor. 
The flicker holes were filled with stucco (pigmented wax).
The missing handle of one of the dossiers has been reconstructed.
Finally, an anti-moth solution and a protective was laid out.