Since 1997 “La Raboterie” has been working on furniture and sculptures as well as furniture restoration of antiquities and handmade sculptures.
Se restore block and inlaid furniture, rebuilding the missing parts and using the original techniques: bone glue, shellac and wax for finishing.
We restore furniture, cupboards, cradles, beds – wax and wick cleaning and polishing.
We rebuild missing parts of sculptures, friezes, antiquities parts, reproducing the missing part as well as the finishing and the colour.
We decorate on old furniture.
Pieces can be restored in lab but also at your home, depending on the customers’ requests and needs.
Nativity Church – Trana – main door restoring and bronze tiles – Turin (Italy) – 2012
The main door is in walnut and it has got two layers: external structure and internal wooden boards.
For the wooden part it is to be depainted, cleaned and rebuilt in parts of moulding.
The four layers of paint are eliminated manually.
The wooden part of the main door was painted using wood coating.
Metal panels were then substituted with bronze tiles in low relief representing 8 out of 12 Virgin Mary’s privileges – designed and handmade by architect and sculptor Maria Primolan.