An Encounter with a Special Place

In a manor in Normandy, an enlightened amateur, an architect from the Bâtiments de France and a decorator decided to create a room around a painted chimney made of wood found in a Parisian antique store. This project is a perfect example of a mission in which one step leads to another, sometimes unexpected, one. We restored polychromatic paintings, created the chimney’s lateral complements, panelling décors and the décors on the joisted ceiling, then a lacquer-ware cabinet.

This exercise consisted of bringing coherency of tone and facture to the high requirements of architectural restitution.  To this end, along with the fact that all the construction material used was ancient and recovered, we were sure to present a piece, by technical choices and the veracity of its ornaments, that no one could doubt had crossed over centuries.