124mc18-AL-2017_Racconigi, Castello, H. T. Peters, Armchair, inv. R 2963

Facilitated description: 

 

The armchair is made of wood and fabric. 
Henry Thomas Peters made the armchair in 1833. 
The armchair is kept at the Castello di Racconigi in Carlo Alberto's Studio. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the armchair in 2017 on the occasion of an exhibition. 
The restorers put the chair in an anoxic chamber (a chamber without oxygen that serves to eliminate insects that eat wood). 
They cleaned the wooden parts and the fabric parts.
In the end they painted the armchair to protect it from the sun's rays and dust. 
 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

The armchair for the Studio of Carlo Alberto del Castello di Racconigi has been restored on the occasion of the exhibition Genius and mestria. Furniture and cabinetmakers at the Savoy court between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Reggia di Venaria, Sala delle Arti 17 March - 15 July 2018). 
 

Restoration

The operation began with disinfestation in the anoxic chamber for a period of three weeks. The cleaning of the chemical surface deposits of the wooden and mechanical parts on the fabrics was followed. In the end, a protective varnish was applied to the entire work. 

 

Bibliography

C. E. Spantigati, Sheet 77, in Genius and mastery. Furniture and cabinetmakers at the Savoy court between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at the Reggia di Venari, edited by S. De Blasi, Allemandi, 2018, pp. 297-298.