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© lissalou66 In Cumbria, England, antique cabinets belonging to Lois XIV (The Sun King) are ready to back on display at Alnwick Castle. Yannick Chastang is the Kent furniture restorer who was approached by a group of experts from the V & A, National Trust, Palace of Versailles and Duke of Northumberland collection to perform the third restoration on this historical furniture.

The 17th centuray cabinets are heavily gilded and inlaid, and were first restored in 1753 after they were moved from the Palace of Versailles. These antique cabinets used a combination of wood with hard stone marquetry, which is rare and extremely sensitive to air pollution and climate change. Drying of the original adhesives had caused serious lifting of the inlays. So Chastang used cutting edge techniques to modify the original wax-based marquetry cement, and undid previous bad restoration work. <

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