A cutting-edge expertise in France and abroad
2CRC works to conserve, restore and study leather heritage from all periods, in France and abroad.
Our many years of experience enable us to offer our customers cutting-edge expertise.
USB microscope image of a gilded decoration on leather (Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux). © C.Bonnot-Diconne 2024
Layout of a gilt leather decoration for a condition report (Château de Maintenon, dining room). © C.Bonnot-Diconne 2021
- • Technical assistance with diagnostics in historic monuments.
- • Assistance in dating leather works of art.
- • Preliminary study/condition report (technical study and historical study).
- • Health assessment.
- • Surveys and layouts.*
- • Carrying out tests (cleaning, restoration, removal of varnish, etc.).
- • Imaging, digital photography, using different lighting and USB microscopes.
- • Taking samples for analysis.**
- • Carrying out documentary research and literature reviews.***
- • Interpreting technical documents and summarising data.
- • Drawing up conservation protocols.
- • Estimating conservation costs and drawing up planning and retro planning schedules.
* This meticulous assessment enables us to pinpoint the location and distribution of disorders to measure their extent.
** To establish a more precise diagnosis, laboratory analyses to characterise the leather and its condition are proposed and carried out.
*** To gain a better understanding of the works and their history.
Sampling of thread and leather for C14 dating of a gilt leather decoration (Palais Lascaris, Nice). © C.Bonnot-Diconne 2022
Art historians and public and private laboratories
The 2CRC has worked for many years with art historians and public and private laboratories to carry out analyses specific to leather materials (shrinkage temperature, proteomic analyses, FTIR, OCT, C14, etc.).
Each project is unique, so the expertise we offer is personalised.
