124mc19-AL-2017_Racconigi, Castello, J. P. F. Jeanselme, Toiletry chair, inv. R 6701

Facilitated description: 

 

The armchair is made of wood and fabric. 
Joseph Pierre François Jeanselme created the armchair in 1834. 
The armchair is kept at the Castello di Racconigi. 
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 chair. 
They stopped the wooden parts that were coming off.  
In the end they painted the armchair to protect it from the sun's rays and dust. 
 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

The toilet seat of the 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. Cleaning of surface deposits and consolidation of raised inlays followed. Finally, a protective varnish was applied to the entire work. 

 

Bibliography

C. E. Spantigati, Paper 79, 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. 300.