The Soleil does appear in the catalogue as a monochrome panel only.
I guess somtimes on has to make an exception.
All embossed parts were painted except for the inner circle, and then we thought to add some gilding.
After all these years I’m still surprised by the effect of the light on a picture taken in the same setting !
As Always.
Fred
At this stage I can’t comment extensively on this posting, pictures however are speaking for themselves. .
For a French fashion designer we made a series of panels and here are the first pictures of the waistcoats he made from two Verentuil panels.
What strikes is the gilt-leather being transfigured by the work of meticulous craftsmen, transformed by people with a vision for the possibilities of our leather. Their work lifts our gilt leather, making it magnificent in its new given function.
As Always
Fred
Double Damask is one of those designs sitting in our collection for ages, there is hardly any demand for it and I wonder why. It was one of the first designs we made after we got hold of the book “Spanish Leather” by John W. Waterer published by Fabre and Fabre in 1971 Plate 61 shows 2 pictures of the design
Mr Waterer analyses and describes so well the pattern that I just have his text copied 😉
As he says the leather panel in V&A is tooled leather, which we modified so to add the embossing. Why ?
Anyone’s guess I don’t remember.
Its a tricky design, difficult to explain I’ll try to illustrate, stay with me !
As Always
Fred
Anyone can see the chairs are in perfect condition and that leathers seats are all but gone. This type of gilt leather was originally part of a wall covering. Circa 1735 it is installed and is the proud of the house, then fashion changes and the room is redecorated, the once precious leathers are stored in the attic, where a leak in the roof …… etc etc (fiction) than somewhere around 1810 they are recovered by an amazed granddaughter some leathers are reinstalled in a hallway some turn into a screen and some find their final destiny on chairs. This is what you are looking at now, the story is fiction but the senario is good.
Time to set to work !
The pattern on the chairs is the Marot panel in a polychrome version. The Marot is a classic design we have in collection, the panel as shown here above is gilded in a light silver-gilding the birds had a coat of shellac and the panel is antiqued so to down-tone the shine.
Now its time to add antiquing to bind all colours and to down-tone the shine even more.
OMG they have been difficult to make decent pictures of !
As Always
Fred
Best Wishes and Happy New Year 🙂
Thank you all for reading and following this blog.
I wish you all a happy and healthy year 2022
Our first leathers this year go to Crane Estate near Boston they were ordered by our long time distributors and friends from Belfry Historic Consultants Inc https://www.belfryhistoric.com/
Crane Estate is impressive by its architecture and spectacular landscape and as if this is not enough it Crane has quite an unusual history, go and find out https://www.craneestateevents.com/
Its an honor to supplie the Estate with a set of gilt-leather panels.
Verentuil and Palmette gilt-leather in a polychrome version in accordance to submitted colour strike off’s
I hope to able to post some pictures of the upholstered item at a later date.
Checkout Spicyfrog64 its … Lutson 2.0 link bellow.
As always
Fred
What we do too :
Gilt-leather reproductions made for Larvic Museum Oslo.
The choosen design was the Moncla in a poly-chrome version.
As Always
Fred
This was a considerable order we made for the Nebraska State Capitol. It came to us via our distinguished distributor J Buscemi from Classic Revivals Inc
Several moulds had to be cut and over a hunderd panels had to be made.
All the chairs of the Governors hearing room which dated from the 1920’s had to be restored and the leather coverings replaced including those form the Councelors chairs and the Governors chair.
Some pictures I’ve got from the net for you to appreciate
A chair form the audiance room
A Councelors chair and the chair of the Governor
As Always
Fred
Due to the pandemic for the second time in a row the European Artistic Carfts Days from 6 – 11 April are postponed.
I hope we will be able to open our workshop to the public later this year.
For the sake of the visitors we made a series of framed details of the Rose & Tulip Border.
In these troubled times my thoughts are with you, stay safe and keep your spirits high
As always
Fred
In the previous posting I showed some pictures of an unfinished Polychrome Moncla Panel.
This posting is kind of before / after topic.
Yours,
Fred
This is a classic 18th century design and since the very beginning of Lutson a compagnon in our collection.
Bespoke as most of the leathers we produce, indeed you have your say.
This panel is not finished yet, but it gives an idea where we’re heading to.
Here some details
For the pictures I use a Olympus camera in automatique mode, I don’t manipulate the picture afterwards.
Soon to come, the finished panel. I understand the general excitment on the web …
As Always Yours
Fred
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