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Vintage

Antique chestnut door restoration XVIII° century Sant’Arsenio Salerno vallo di Diano Italy

Object: Antique chestnut door restoration XVIII° century Period: last XVIII° century Style: Traditional rustic Provenance: Sant’Arsenio, vallo di Diano, SA, southern Italy Description: Doorway of an old barn local of a noble palace of the province of Salerno, in the Vallo di Diano, southern Italy.  Palace statile of Sant’Arsenio, in the historic center, ancient door completely handmade. Has undergone some structural changes especially in the lower part, where there are also structural damage to the wood due to weather and insect that eat the wood itself.  Good conservation conditions of the original patina. Restoration: Started with the removal of the…

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Walnut solid table restyling Polla Salerno vallo di Diano

Restyling walnut table reconstruction floor cords extensions chestnut Sant'Arsenio Salerno

Object: Walnut table restyling reconstruction plane extensions chestnut Polla Salerno Period: first half of the 20th century Style: Eclectic Provenance: Polla, vallo di Diano, SA, southern Italy Description: Extendable table in solid walnut. Local artisanal production, good quality,  poor conservation conditions. Missing central plane and completely redo the lower bands. Restoration: The furniture was in precarious storage conditions. The center of the top has a plywood sheet that does not fit the solid walnut table. The lower area of ​​the feet is completely redone, in good condition only the central elements. The table has been smoothed and all the elements…

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Restructuring of a fixture and a chestnut wood door

Restructuring of a door and a chestnut wood window

©RestauriRaia.com Restoration, renovation and restyling of wooden artifacts. Period: last quarter of the eighteenth century, the first half of the nineteenth century Style: Neoclassical Provenance: Vallo di Diano, SA, Southern Italy Description: Originally windows of a palace built in the late eighteenth century. Manufactured entirely in solid chestnut, native wood essence used constantly in the realization of frames for its hardness and resistance to weathering and wood insects. Built with excellent craftsmanship and careful choice of the cutting areas of the trunk. Excellent condition. Restoration: More than a restoration it is a readjustment for another building, a choice that has…

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Restyling of a rustic table in mixed wood

Restyling of a rustic table in mixed wood

Period: first quarter of the twentieth century Style: Rustico Provenance: Vallo di Diano, SA, Southern Italy Description: Rustic table in rustic built with native wood mixed area. Standing chestnut, plane and horizontal elements in spruce, fir tipping elements. Built with good mastery it is a solid table and is intended to last in time even if made of wood with no high durability in the plane and in the horizontal elements. Restoration: The cabinet was in poor storage conditions. Attacked so it extended by wood-eating insects, and covered with numerous re-painting series that hid fillings and patches distributed throughout the…

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Restoration of a chest of drawers in walnut and walnut flame

©RestauriRaia.com Restoration, renovation and restyling of wooden artifacts. Subject: walnut chest of drawers Period: last quarter of the twentieth century Style: Eclectic Provenance: Southern Italy Description: Classic chest of drawers in solid walnut and burr walnut in typical eclectic style. Restoration: The dresser was completely covered by a widespread and pervasive black coating that in addition to distorting the appearance it had strongly influenced the preservation not allowing the wood to breathe. It proceeded immediately to remove the black paint, moving then to the woodworm treatment. Several of necessary carpentry work, both structural reconstruction of the missing frames. Were inserted…

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Restoration neoclassical walnut table, 1920

Neoclassical walnut table chairs restoration

Object:  Restoration neoclassical walnut table, 1920 Period: 1920 Style: Neoclassical Provenance: Milan Table made of solid walnut in its structural elements. Legs tapered column, and the feet are in solid walnut. The fittings to see between the legs are in poplar veneered walnut. The walnut veneer top and the classical neo-classical decoration with thread flanks and geometric design. The four classical bronze decorative corners. The central extension veneered walnut with heart-shaped geometric grain. Sober neoclassical table suitable for both a classical style to enrich a more modern decor. Opened reaches 3 meters. With extension inserted in the listing becomes a…

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