Restoration

Guides and ideas on restoration

From the Handsome blog

• Florence 1966: The Flood That Invented a Profession

  Nobody knew what to do with a million books covered in oil and mud. The techniques to save them did not exist yet: they were invented there, as the water fell. Sixty years on, the job is not finished.

• Pergola and the gilded bronzes: why a Roman group in gold and bronze sits in a hill town

  A Roman equestrian group in gilded bronze is not in Rome: it is in Pergola, in the province of Pesaro and Urbino, because two farmers found it there in 1946. It is worth seeing also to understand how metal was cast and gilded.

• Venice workshops: beyond Murano, the secret crafts of the lagoon

  Everyone thinks of Murano and stops there. But Venice still hosts 6 other millennium-old crafts, in ateliers hidden among calli, sottoporteghi and minor islands. Here they are, and where to try them.

• For Makers

  How to turn restoration into an experience for the public

  Saving an object instead of throwing it away carries a value people feel. Restoration, told well, becomes a workshop full of meaning.