Maintenance and restoration

Chandeliers

The craft of the restoration of a Murano glass chandelier, large or small, is acquired on the field, with time, with passion and with capacity.

It is a question of thinking and identifying with the craftsman who produced that chandelier 50, 100 or 200 years ago to be able to reproduce the missing elements referring to the techniques and the fusions adopted by him.

Often during our fifty years of activity we found ourselves in the presence of large chandeliers, composed in some cases by even 80 lights, up to 5 meters high and suspended on magnificent artistic ceilings of large buildings, institutional headquarters, patrician residences; equally often the initial difficulties consisted in having to give shape and symmetry to the chandelier depleted by time and by rough maintenance that had altered and inflated the original form.

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A fundamental moment in the restoration process is the reproduction phase of the missing elements, ie any leaves, flowers, cups and so on, these must be redesigned on paper and shapes one by one to then obtain the missing piece of glass giving it the most similar shape possible to the original.

DURING THIS PROCESS OF REMAKING OF THE CHANDELIER’S ELEMENTS, IT IS INTERESTING TO KNOW THAT WE STILL USE THE SAME WORK TOOLS USED BY THE MASTERS OF THE PAST.

APPARENTLY, THESE TOOLS ARE SIMPLE TOOLS MOSTLY MADE IN IRON SOMETIMES IN WOOD, BUT EACH OF THEM HAS A PRECISE TASK FOR THE PURPOSE OF BLOWING, CUTTING, STAPLING the incandescent glass which can only be processed at the temperature of 1200/1400 degrees CENTIGRADE.

ONCE THE REPRODUCED PIECE IS FINISHED, THE SAME ONE MUST BE PUT IN THE SO-CALLED “FORNO DI MUFFOLA”. THIS KIND OF OVEN HAS THE ROLE of bringing it back slowly to room temperature. OFTEN, THIS PROCESS CAN LAST AN ENTIRE NIGHT.

the phase of the colour is fundamental.

In fact, reproducing an old or antique element entails recreating an unencoded colour whose result was entrusted to the compound, whose formula was secret to belonging exclusively to the production furnace.

The “Murano Più”, custodian of this ancient and noble art, is able to provide an excellent complete restoration, providing the affected chandelier of certified electrical system, to reconsolidate the exhausted gypsum casings that lodge on the plates, to reproduce the structural parts in wood or iron.

An intervention requested by our customers is that of the “cleaning” of the chandelier that we are able to perform perfectly either at home or when requested by the client, or at our offices in Rome.

Mirrors

In addition to the restoration of the chandeliers, it is important to underline another interesting area of intervention, specifically the restoration of Venetian mirrors.

The first news concerning the attempt to make glass mirrors in the city of Venice dates back to the beginning of the fourteenth century, but the balance was not positive.

In the fifteenth century, Angelo Barovier invented in that of Murano the “crystal”, a type of glass extremely limpid and with excellent transparency, which will acquire great importance in the creation of Venetian mirrors.

From the second half of the following century, the quality of the Murano manufacture began to have no equal in Europe, thanks above all to a technique developed by Vincenzo Redor to smooth the glass plate so as to make

these mirrors also reflecting the metal mirrors.

As part of our restoration and conservation work, we can provide the single leaflet or rose, therefore focusing our work on a specific and circumscribed need of the customer or we can do a complete intervention on the mirror: census of all missing or damaged pieces, possible reconstruction, disassembly, cleaning of the wood that constitutes the supporting structure of the mirror, a new silvering through the application of paints and tapes, a thorough final cleaning.

Everything is done with the maximum respect for the centuries-old tradition, with the aim of recovering and safeguarding over the time a unique object, absolute excellence of Made in Italy.

– Restoration of Murano glass objects.

– Restoration and maintenance of Murano glass chandeliers.

– Restoration and maintenance of Murano Glass Mirrors.

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