The leathers of Château de Maintenon regain their splendor
2CRC LEATHER GETS A NEW SKIN
[Moirans, Isère, France] The Leather Conservation and Restoration Center (2CRC) was created in 2002 by Céline Bonnot-Diconne, a graduate of the Master's degree in conservation-restoration of cultural property (Paris I). The 185 m² single-storey workshop is capable of receiving large-scale works in air-conditioned and secure premises. He works for museums, historical monuments, communities and individuals. Here its craftsmen work on the leather decorations of the dining room of the Château de Maintenon.
THE ARTICLE: HERITAGE THE ETHICS OF THE RESTAURANT © AGENCE ZEPPELIN
THE PHOTOGRAPHER: © ANTOINE MERLET
Palais Lascaris (Nice) - 2022
Crozatier Museum - Restorations - Embossed gilt leather panel
The details of the restoration
The study of Jean-Pierre Fournet, specialist in gilded leather, drew our attention to these elements. Their probable common origin, their originality and their historical value guided the choice of a restoration.
These golden leather tiles had had an erratic history before the restoration project. Probably coming from a larger ensemble, perhaps from a setting in the Château de Gordes, certain elements (if not all) arrived at the museum in 1873. Their history has been lost, they were dismantled and then reassembled in an anarchic manner and technically disastrous.
They also suffered water damage.
The panels were unstitched, cleansed, flattened, reassembled by a new seam taking up historical traces, and reassembled on a frame. A small modern leather element has been added to complete the assembly which offers the public a glimpse of this type of luxurious 17th century decor.
The restorer
Céline Bonnot-Diconne, certified restorer at the Museum of France, leather specialty.
Restored in 2021 with the help of the Regional Restoration Assistance Fund, co-financed by the State and the Region.
The panel is visible in the room of Renaissance works of art.
Panel (incomplete) in embossed gold leather
Provence, Avignon
2nd half 17th century
golden leather and embossed leather
dimensions of the elements reassembled after restoration: 167.3 x 130.2 cm
inventory number: 1945.1095.1; 1945.1095.2 and 2009.11.345 (retrospective verification, probable donation from Launey, 1873)
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VIDEO - France TV Météo à la carte - Craftsmanship: restoring leather, quite an art!
presented by: Marine Vignes, Laurent Romejko
For 20 years there has been a leather restoration and conservation center. From Cordoba leather to archaeological objects, in this workshop, talented craftsmen work to restore their shine to all tanned skins. Sun, rain or humidity are all enemies for leather.
This video is also available on France TV BY CLICKING HERE
VIDEO Online conference on the conservation and restoration of gilt leather
Invited by the Institut National du Patrimoine (INP), on the 6th of december 2021, Céline Bonnot-Diconne gave a conference online on the conservation and restoration of gilt leather.
This video is available on You Tube BY CLICKING HERE
The INP (National Heritage Institute in Paris) has inaugurated in 2019 a new cycle of conferences, dedicated to the excellence and richness of the profession of heritage conservator.
To learn more about :
https://www.inp.fr
VIDEO Report for the TF1 1pm news
Leather restoration, an exceptional skill.
Here is a restoration workshop that has all the makings of a clinic for leathers, and in particular the so-called Cordoba leathers. These are painted leathers, slightly in relief, like the one shown here. It is a treasure from the end of the 17th century, used as an altar front. It was recently rediscovered in a Savoyard church. Master of art, Céline Bonnot-Diconne is one of the five people in Europe who know how to restore them. The detail of the wounds and their depth are revealed under the microscope. The microscope also reveals some of the secrets of the work's manufacture, which is traditionally covered with silver leaf. It is because this decorative art is a poor relation, neglected by museums, that the specialist has become passionate about it. The smallest dressings are made on the spot. Some are made from polyester, as if to suture a wound, others from resin, to fill holes, or from leather. In all cases, all interventions must be documented and reversible over time, according to the master craftsman.
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Posted on August 18, 2021 at 1:35 pm
IBAF 2021: 8th Ion Beam Applications Francophone Meeting
IBAF 2021: 8th Ion Beam Applications Francophone Meeting
Initiated in Nouan-le-Fuzelier in 2003 under the impetus of B. Agius, President of the French Vacuum Society, and G. Amsel, one of the pioneers in the application of vacuum physics in the field of physics. Agius, President of the French Vacuum Society, and G. Amsel, one of the pioneers in the application in the fields of condensed matter physics, materials science, heritage, the Earth, and the living world, but also of ion beams from small accelerators originally intended for nuclear physics studies, IBAF has been held regularly since then :
Carcans 2008,
Namur (Belgium) 2010,
Cadarache 2012,
Obernai 2014,
Annecy 2016 and
Nouan le Fuzelier 2018.
Initially scheduled for June 2020, this 8th edition of IBAF will take place this year in a virtual format, from 5 to 7 July 2021.
These days are focused on the production and exploitation of particle beams of energy up to a few MeV, typically from electrostatic accelerators or small cyclotrons. But presentations on much higher energy particle beams, neutrons or electrons, could also be of interest to the community, as the underlying physics and technology are in part common between these different themes.
The programme will favour presentations by young PhD and post-doctoral students, giving them priority for oral presentations. Poster presentations are also welcome. Posters will be available for consultation throughout the conference and will be given a short oral presentation (5 min) in dedicated sessions.
Papers, preferably in French, are invited on all aspects of the application of ion beams for materials analysis and for materials studies under irradiation.
Discover 7 excellent know-how for which history and their stories intertwine yesterday and today!
Master of Art Céline Bonnot-Diconne takes us to the heart of Napoleon's campaigns.
In 2014, Céline Bonnot-Diconne, leather restorer, worked on Napoleon's campaign armchair whose leather seat was torn following an accident during the preparation of the Napoleon at the Bivouac exhibition at the Palais Fesch - Musée des Beaux-Arts in Ajaccio. Thanks to the Art Master, the armchair, dated 1808, was restored in time to be presented to the public. Property of the Mobilier National, this folding armchair of Napoleon is now deposited in the Musée de l'Armée.
Céline Bonnot-Diconne is a restorer of works of art approved by the Musées de France. For more than 20 years, she has devoted herself to a very particular material: leather. In 2015, she was appointed Master of Art and undertook to pass on her know-how to Marie Héran, herself a qualified restorer. At the Centre de Conservation et de Restauration du Cuir (Leather Conservation and Restoration Centre), which she founded in 2002, she works on a wide variety of works: archaeological leathers, furniture, polychrome gilded leathers known as Cordoba leathers, etc. Each of her interventions is documented and guided by the constant concern to carry out measured restorations that respect the traces of use while offering a satisfactory presentation to the public.
#Bicentenary #2021NapoleonYear
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Leather decorations rediscovered in the presbytery of Saint-Sorlin-d'Arves (Savoie)
Very degraded fragments of a leather decoration were rediscovered, hidden behind a cupboard, in the presbytery of the commune of Saint-Sorlin-d'Arves (Savoie).
The 2CRC has completed the restoration of these elements, which has enabled the reconstruction of a long-lost decoration: an altar front in gilded polychrome embossed leather that decorated the Rosary chapel. Dated around 1700 and of French origin, it has exceptional gilded backgrounds and a central medallion painted in oil with the Virgin and Child.
Restoration: C.Bonnot-Diconne, M.Heran and C.Snyers.
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A book dedicated to Gilt leathers
Art historian Jean-Pierre Fournet is devoting a book to the sumptuous heritage represented by so-called Gilt leathers, the restoration of which is the specialty of the master of art Céline Bonnot-Diconne.
More than a year ago, the art historian Jean-Pierre Fournet confided his emotion while the master of art Céline Bonnot-Diconne and her former student Marie Héran were at the Château d'Ecouen. The two restorers then returned to the Renaissance Museum, after several months of work, an exceptional polychrome gilded leather wall hanging, exceptional both in size and in its history.
Find out more about the La Bataille de Gelboé hanging
Today, the researcher pays homage to these so-called Gilt leathers, a sumptuous and little-known heritage that only a few craftsmen can claim to restore. He published a book - the first of this scope devoted to the subject - which traces the history of polychrome gilded leather decorations, in particular from those preserved in France.
The book is titled Golden Leather, Gilt Leather. European art. Published by Editions Monelle Hayot, it includes a rich iconography of more than 600 images.
Golden leathers, Gilt leathers. European art
Jean-Pierre Fournet
Editions Monelle Hayot
VIDEO Dijon Museums - documentary (Restoration returns)
MUSEUMS OF DIJON - documentary (RETURNS FROM RESTORATION)
For a year now, the doors to the museums of Dijon have - unfortunately - remained closed to the public more than they have been open ... But this closure to the public does not mean the total cessation of activity!
The direction of the museums of the city of Dijon thus decided to entrust us with the realization of a mini-series in order to make you discover part of the operations which continued during this period… These missions are, even in a usual context, often invisible to visitors. They take place in spaces and times that are not accessible to the public, mainly for security reasons; but they remain essential, even vital, to the life of museums and their collections.
Welcome to “Behind the scenes of Dijon museums”!
Episode 2 - Restoration Returns
What policy for the restoration of works of art? What techniques are used? For what objectives and what results? The restoration of works of art advances the knowledge that museums have of their own collection ... but not only. Catherine Tran-Bourdonneau, curator for the Dijon museums, explains the value of these restorations to us.
This video is available on You Tube www.youtube.com BY CLICKING HERE
VIDEO of the city of Romans : Ranimer la matière
At the museum, the shoes can be exhibited, stored, loaned or in the course of restoration ... it was the case of several pieces, returned more beautiful than one imagined, thanks to the work of Céline Bonnot-Diconne , curator and restorer of leather. Follow us behind the scenes of his coming.
This video is also available on You Tube at this address: www.youtube.com
Heritage days at the Château de Longpra
On the occasion of Heritage Days, come and meet me on September 20, 2020 at the Château de Longpra from 11 a.m.
A rich program of entertainment on site, in addition to the guided tour of the castle and access to the park and the woodworking tool museum.
2CRC presentation VIDEO
Find the 2CRC in pictures.
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Réalisation - Production : Lucie Diconne - Janvier 2020
Crozatier Museum - Restorations - Embossed gilt leather panel
National prizes - VMF prizes - Centre-Val de Loire - Loir-et-Cher
A VMF Prize – Belle Main Endowment Fund, worth €7,500, is awarded to the owners of the Château de Droué, for the restoration of leather in the library (Loir-et-Cher).
Ancestors of wallpapers, golden leathers, also often called Cordoba leathers because this ancestral technique was imported from southern Spain to Flanders by the Spaniards, are luxurious decorations that were used throughout Europe, especially 16th to the end of the 18th century, to adorn the interior of the richest residences. These gilded leathers from Flanders from the 17th and 18th centuries, which are reused, were placed by Mr. Jameson, owner of the castle from 1855 to 1869. This castle knew various more or less happy fortunes before being moved by its abandonment and its state dilapidated, the family of the owners, by buying the castle 16 years ago, decided to give it life and luster. The leather restoration will be carried out by Mrs. Bonnot Diconne and her internationally known company 2CRC: her great expertise in this field is recognized by the greatest museums.
VIDEO on the site www.maitredart.fr: MASTERS OF ART # EPISODE 3
The Institut National des Métiers d'Art and Home & Images Production have entrusted the filmmaker Aurine Crémieu with the realization of seven short films about the French MASTERS OF ART.
The third episode, RANIMER LA MATIÈRE, RETROUVER UN PATRIMOINE takes us behind the scenes of the restoration of art objects. Céline Bonnot-Diconne is a leather conservator. Aurine Crémieu followed her work for several months.
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Interim Meeting of the ICOM-CC Leather Working Group Paris - Quai Branly museum
The interim meeting of ICOM-CC Leather Working Group was held in Paris on the 6th and 7th of June 2019.
Céline Bonnot-Diconne, member of the scientific committee, gave two oral communications and one poster:
- La collection de cuirs archéologiques coptes du musée du Louvre : focus sur des objets exceptionnels par Céline Bonnot-Diconne, Dominique Bénazeth et Florence Calament
- L'histoire mouvementée de cinq tentures historiées en cuir doré, peint et ciselé du 17ème siècle représentant des scènes de l'Ancien Testament par Céline Bonnot-Diconne*, Jean-Pierre Fournet*, Muriel Barbier, Laurianne Robinet, Lucile Beck, Marie Heran, Marie Radepont et Sylvie Heu-Thao
- Datation par la méthode du radiocarbone de peintures au blanc de plomb apposées sur des cuirs dorés par Cyrielle Messager*, Lucile Beck, Ingrid Caffy, Emmanuelle Delqué-Kolic, Jean-Pascal Dumoulin, Solène Mussard, Marion Perron, Christophe Moreau, Céline Bonnot-Diconne
More informations here : www.leather2019.sciencesconf.org
Global Challenges Science Week in Grenoble from June 3rd to 6th, 2019
Céline Bonnot-Diconne and Marie Radepont were invited to present the research projects they conducted about Gilt Leathers as part of the Global Challenges Science Week which took place in Grenoble from June 3rd to 6th, 2019.
The 2019 Global Challenges Science Week is a major event bringing together over 700 French and international scientists, doctoral students, experts as well as public and private sector stakeholders.
The aims were to share the latest research findings, discuss transdisciplinary issues, and discuss opportunities for new international collaborations to address the key challenges of the 21st century.
Céline and Marie showed the methodology and the multidisciplinary aspect of their research.
More information here : www.edu.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
To see the planning : click here.
VIDEO on the website www.museumtv.art Master of Art : Ranimer la matière
The film Master of Art: Renew the material, leather restorer Céline Bonnot-Diconne will be available on www.museumtv.art on May 24th.
This video is also available on Vimeo at this address: www.vimeo.com
LA DEPECHE : The municipality is mobilizing for its heritage
Heritage, Bordères-Louron
Monday, May 6, Céline Bonnot-Diconne brought back to the church Saint-Germé, in Ilhan, the antependium she had restored. An antepedium is a decoration located in front of the altar. Like many other objects, it reflected the richness of a place: thus, it could be made of precious metal, embroidery and pearls ... or for the poorest ones like here, leather. An opportunity for the inhabitants and elected officials to discover this altar frontal, a specimen that is now rare in France. The conservator specified that the Pyrenees and the Alps regions are the places where one finds most of these decorative elements in leather. Indeed, the climate of the mountains is favourable for the conservation of this material with low temperatures and a significant humidity. If we add to this that the Revolution has rarely reached the valleys, the religious heritage is rather well preserved.
The antependium has been restored in the studio of this artist, almost the only one in France to be interested in leather. She removed the dust, sewn it when necessary, put a little paint where it was too cracked. But she especially made talk this object. She explains that this is a re-use, the dimension being too big for the altar. The technique was always the same for the making of these altar fronts: a sheepskin worked to acquire flexibility, carved in tile and covered by silver leaves. These leaves were then coated with a golden varnish, hence the name of the craftsman who did this work: gilder on leather. It was still necessary to press molds on the tiles and to paint the raised decorations thus obtained. Ilhan's Deputy Mayor, Gilbert de Benque, is very proud of the work done. Because, for him, it was necessary to do it. All that the elders left us must be kept. So that, in a few years, our young people say: They have kept a lot of things. A facing that should only be maintained with a feather duster, even the passage of a cloth that may ultimately deteriorate.
Horizon Pyrenees: Number 23 - The memory of the villages can go through the heritage
Horizon Pyrenees
Number 23 - Saturday, May 11, 2019
Cultural news in the Hautes-Pyrénées
Photo credit: Anne Billard
The memory of villages can go through heritage
The churches of the small mountain villages are full of treasures: statues, altars, tabernacles or murals are all traces of the history of these territories. Thanks to the tranquility of places that have not been affected by wars of religion or the French Revolution, these objects are still often in good condition nowadays. And if necessary, the municipalities mobilize and make financial efforts to conserve or even make them restore. This is the case of a leather antependium, a setting positioned in front of the altar, at the church of Ilhan, in the commune of Bordères-Louron.
Céline Bonnot-Diconne is one of the rare specialists of the restoration of leather objects in France. What motivated her, she admits it is that nobody born is interested.
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Anne Billard
Conference Gilt leather... The decorations kept in the Pays d'Aix
HISTORY, CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION
CÉLINE BONNOT-DICONNE AND JEAN-PIERRE FOURNET
September 21 at 18h
Organized by the museum of Old Aix.
A few days after the Heritage Days, the museum offers a conference, where will be discussed the decor of the Town Hall and museums of Aix, those of the castles of Fonscolombe, Borély and La Barben. The speakers are two prominent French specialists in golden leathers.
Free entry
Interviews for the show Grand Format on Radio Bresse
The program Grand Format is available online on the Radio Bresse website and can also be podcasted.
Here are the release dates:
Monday 07/05: 19H
Thursday 10/05 - in 3 times: 13 H30 14H30 15H30
Saturday 19/05: 14H
Friday 25/05 - in 3 times: 9H 10H 11H
Tuesday 29/05: 20H
Sunday 03/06: 6H
www.radiobresse.com
Conférence les Jeudis du musée, le madd-bordeaux
Every Thursday at 7 pm, the museum invites the public to listen to the intervention of an actor from the world of decorative arts or design or to attend a presentation of a specific theme related to the collections.
April 12 2018 : The conservation and restoration of leather objects. Meeting with Céline Bonnot-Diconne, Master of Art.
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Discoveries without reservation STATE OF SEATS
The Department of Haute-Savoie invites you to its next meeting Discoveries without reservation
Friday, March 30 2018 from 12:30 to 13:30
STATE OF SEATS
Céline Bonnot-Diconne and Marie Héran, heritage restorers, tell the stories
in time polychrome golden leather chairs of Clermont Castle.
Pensioner At The Medici Villa - Meeting 1
As part of the exhibition Hébert, resident at the villa Medici, the museum offers meetings with former residents of the villa Medici.
First encounter with :
Céline Bonnot-Diconne
Restorer of leather
Master of Art 2015
Former Pensionary at the Academy of France in Rome - Villa Medici
2CRC - Leather Conservation and Restoration Center
Thursday, March 22 2018 at 6:30 pm
Large gallery of the Hébert museum
Free entry
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Journée d'étude SFIIC Groupe Dorure
25 janvier 2018
C2RMF - Auditorium
Palais du Louvre - Porte des Lions 14, quai François Mitterrand
Paris 75001
Conférences et colloques
Type de public: Membre de la SFIIC / Tout public
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la création en 2017 du groupe Dorure à la SFIIC.
Ce groupe a pour objectif de réunir tous les acteurs concernés par la conservation, la restauration et l'étude des surfaces dorées.
Le thème abordé lors de cette première journée d'étude sera : Vocabulaire et techniques.
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Retrouver la provenance des cuirs de Cordoue avec l’accélérateur de particules New-AGLAÉ
En 2011, Céline Bonnot-Diconne, conservatrice-restauratrice d’objets en cuir, se rapproche des scientifiques afin de mieux comprendre les techniques qui se cachent derrière la fabrication de ces décors, dont les surfaces peuvent atteindre plusieurs dizaines de mètres carrés.
De cette initiative naîtra quelques années plus tard le projet de recherche CORDOBA, sous la responsabilité de Laurianne Robinet, ingénieure de recherche au Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation (CRC).
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VIDEO France 3 : Emission / Rhône-Alpes Matin diffusée le 06/10/2015
Céline Bonnot-Diconne, based in Moirans, near Grenoble, in Isère, joined the very closed circle of Masters of Art. She restores old leathers.
extract Rhône-Alpes morning of October 6, 2015
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France 3 : A Moirans (Isère), Céline Bonnot-Diconne restaure le cuir du passé
Céline Bonnot-Diconne restaure le cuir du passé
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24 Heures : Le château de L’Isle abrite un trésor unique en Suisse
Le château de L’Isle abrite un trésor unique en Suisse
«A L’Isle, le cuir a été à la fois repoussé et ciselé, ce qui est très original, observe Céline Bonnot-Diconne, restauratrice. De plus, on y trouve des motifs rarement conservés, peints à partir de laques rouges et vertes. Ce sont des tentures uniques.»
extrait de 24 heures signe Lausanne
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France Bleu Isère : réparation du fauteuil de Napoléon
Céline Bonnot-Diconne est l'une des rares restauratrices spécialisées dans la réparation du cuir en France. C'est elle qui a été appelée quand un gardien de musée a cassé un fauteuil pliant de campagne de l'Empereur au cours du montagne d'une exposition au Musée Fesch à Ajaccio
Par Véronique Saviuc, France Bleu Isère
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Restauratrice de métier, Céline Bonnot-Diconne revient d’une année passée à la Villa Médicis à Rome, d’avril 2011 à septembre 2012.
Pensionnaire de la prestigieuse Académie de France à Rome, plus connue sous le nom de Villa Médicis pendant un an et demi, Céline Bonnot-Diconne vient tout juste de regagner son atelier de restauration des cuirs (le Centre de Conservation et de Restauration du Cuir) en Isère.
EXtrait du Le Journal de Saone et Loire Nicolas Desroches
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Meeting with Céline Bonnot, from Abergement Sainte-Colombe to Villa Médicis
Céline Bonnot-Diconne, born November 20, 1969 in Saint-Rémy, fell from an early age into the pot of archeology.
And yet, she did not grow up in the middle of the old stones, but rather surrounded by cars. His parents have long held the garage of Abergement-Sainte-Colombe.
I started to search at the age of 13 in Tournus and at the Celtic archaeological site of Bragny-sur-Saone, she recalls. I quickly became aware of the fragility of the heritage discovered and the value of keeping it in a better state.
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