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Directory style chair, walnut wood (set of 4), 18th century

Pair of "Cesca" chairs, 19th c.

They arrive at the workshop with the grille broken and both varnish damaged. The varnish has been removed, re-varnished and a new grill installed.
It is an icon of 19th century design and one of the symbols of the Bauhaus.
Its design is assigned to Marcel Breuer, Hungarian architect and designer among the most influential of the Bauhaus school. He designed it as "B32" in 1928, taking a step further in chair design because, the Cesca chair (although it was not yet called that), supported itself on two legs. A breakthrough in the world of design. Six years earlier, he had taken his first steps with tubular structures, in 1925, he created the Wassily chair, an armchair also with a steel structure.
On the other hand, the Dutchman Mart Stam presented an equal design in Germany in 1927. And here the controversy begins, and both designers (Breuer and Stam) went to trial.
Although Stam won it, it is the Hungarian from the Bauhaus school who went down in history as a designer.
In the 1950s, Breuer assigned the rights to the B32 to Dino Gavina, in Foligno (Italy). It was then that it was named the Cesca chair, in honor of Breuer's daughter, whose name was Francesca. They are still produced today due to their contemporary design.

Pair of Majorcan chaise longues in beech wood, with armrests, with double position (sitting or lying down), 19th c.

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They arrive at the workshop with the armrests and a cross member broken and badly fixed. And with faded blue fabric and fixed with studs.
They took it apart, redid all the broken parts with solid beech, and made 4 new parts (2 crossbars and 2 removable cannulas) to fit the new fabric and make it removable. They have been assembled again, reintegrated the color and varnished with exterior varnish.

They say that deckchairs were born on the decks of ships in the early 1900s, and over time they moved from ships to bathing areas. But they were not rented, each brought his own. Originally the fabric was fixed with studs (they prevented the fabric from being changed or washed).
This fabric is known around the world as ikat. They began to be seen in Europe about 600 years ago, when Marco Polo took them from the Silk Road. Now, the only three language fabric workshops in Europe are in Mallorca.

Solid mahogany Isabelina style chair 18th c.

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It arrives at the workshop with the backrest broken by the joints. "Trencadissa" typical of these chairs. Restored with solid mahogany reinforcements. In the past, it was restored with iron reinforcements fastened with screws, a material that oxidizes with the wood's own moisture and ends up damaging it and moving over time.
This decorative style occurs during the reign of Isabel II of Spain (1833-1868).

Elizabethan style secretaries, chests of drawers or with marquetry and mirrored consoles are typical of the Elizabethan style, with boxwood marquetry on mahogany and, at the same time, the well-known room chairs, curved against curved (where this chair comes from), and the auxiliary furniture, decorated with mother-of-pearl, chicranda wood, mahogany or absolute black varnished.

English Regency style mahogany chair, early 18th century.

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The chair arrives at the workshop with movement in the legs on the right side, with holes from an old attack of woodpeckers and with the lack of the central bronze decorative rosette of the backrest.
It had to be taken apart taking care not to break the grid seat, clean damaged glues, re-glue, superficially clean the varnish, plaster with wax, find, replace and age the bronze rosette of the backrest, and varnished with shellac" in French".

The Regency style (1800-1830) is very relevant in the history of English furniture as it meant a change in the way they were designed. It has this name because Jorge IV was then the prince regent (1811-1820).
It is inspired by the styles of the classical period of Rome, Greece and Egypt. The attempt to create exact copies of the furniture and ornaments is the starting point for the designers of this period.

Danish beech rocker, 1/2 19th c. ('60s).

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Designed by Holger Georg Jensen for Kubus Mobler from 1960 to 1969, Modern Scandinavian style (Denmark), Model-100.

Restored by a student.

It arrives at the workshop painted green, with worn upholstery and movement due to unglued joints.
The 5 parts (2 sides, backrest, seat and crossbar) of the rocker have been disassembled, the joints of each moving part removed, damaged glues cleaned from each joint, pickled to restore the natural beech, sanded by hand with paper of glass, re-glued each piece, varnished with colorless satin varnish in water and finished with wax; reupholstered and reupholstered; and reassembled the rocker.

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