Larvick Museum Chairs / Lages Upholsterers / Lutson Leathers

The Baroque chairs as they came from Larvick Museum, Norway.

What happened to the Larvick chairs at the Lages upholsterers facility in Nora Sweden.

 

This is Master Leif and behold, he means business !

 

Master Leif attacking precious Lutson leathers with his hammer !

After hours of removing all the sick internals, putting in new springs, horse-hair, stuffing and canvas, after hours of cutting with dexterity and hammering like mad, but alert and vigilant so the hand and the hammer do what the mind orders. Its time for Mistress Annika to appear, sharp eyed to judge the work done.

Leif worked hard, Annika inspected severly and found the work excellent !

Mistress Annika taking the pose.

 

A detail: note the nice trimming cut from the excess of a panel its perfectly positioned and hold in place with the appropriated copper studs.

 

The Lages Team, top upholsterers !

 

As Always

Fred

 

 

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Pieter De Hooch 17th century Gilt Leather Interiors

Pieter De Hooch

A remarkable painter of Dutch interior scenes of the 17^th century.

He is often compared to Vermeer or at least mentioned in the same phrase, De Hooch being 3 years older than Vermeer.

However Vermeer’s paintings are more emotional. Vermeer is a master in  creating an atmosphere, the interior being an accessory to help express the feelings he brushes down so delicately.

De Hooch is more precise, making the interior communicate with the exterior by opening doors and windows, using tiled floors to accentuate the perspective. The interior scene an elegant way to allow painting elaborated surroundings.

Before 1660 De Hooch lived in Delft there he painted middle class interior scenes.
When he moved to Amsterdam his clientele being wealthier the interiors reflect this. High ceilings, rich furniture, paintings on the walls, elaborated tapestries and indeed gilt leather

 

Theses paintings were painted around 1664

Fred

Lutson Leathers at ISGM Boston

The Tapestry Room at ISGM

I’m quite an amateur of the eclectic mix of contemporary furniture  and antiques.

Or antique furniture with modern art.

I love the lived-in interiors, not too neat nor too neglected, rooms filled with memories and faded colours.

This dining area in the Tapestry Room at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is in his “medieval” ways just splendid.

  At ISGM they describe the Tapestry Room as follows:

“The Tapestry Room is one of the few galleries affording room to wander freely. The sense of space and openness that visitors will discover in the restored Tapestry Room will be amazing—and unexpected for many—and a celebration of Gardner’s original vision.”

—Gianfranco Pocobene, Head of Conservation

While  the Tapestry Room was being restored we were asked to reproduce the Giltleather for the dining room chairs .

Some of the original leather panels traveled to our workshop and in cooperation with the conservators we provided new Giltleather.

From the original Giltleather some was gone beyond salvation, mostly the seats.

One back of a chair, though severely damaged, was in good enough, readable state to allow us to recreate the right gilding and the matching colour palette.

 

The design that lined the chairs is the one we call the “Korfus” and it’s actualy one of the first moulds we made,I believe  it will stay on the catalogue ….. forever !

  Pictures above are courtesy of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston. Many thanks.

As Always

Frederic