Manufatti in cuoio. Conservazione e restauro

With this volume the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum is continuing a project launched in 1995 to provide restorers active in the field of decorative arts with the means of keeping up with the latest developments.
The texts collected here offer a synthesis of the seminar devoted to leather restoration organized by the Museum in October-November 2000 with the cooperation of the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro and the Istituto per la Patologia del Libro in Rome.
The aim is to give some thought to a material - leather of course - which is often neglected not only from an historical and artistic viewpoint but also where conservation is concerned. As in the preceding volumes in the series, the texts, in their economy of words, are meant to suggest a line of study and method, with the support and enrichment...