16.01.2025

Cultural heritage, Industry news, Profession

Special conference on leather conservation

Building design

Leather wallpaper in the Rubens House, Antwerp. Photo: RESTAURO

The 12th meeting of the ICOM-CC Leather and Related Materials Working Group will take place online on October 12 and 13, 2022. Organizers are the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and the ICOM-Committee for Conservation

Historical objects made of leather such as book bindings, military equipment, saddles, shoes, sword scabbards, ethnographica, bags, traditional costume components, bridles, etc. are exposed to a variety of dangers and degradation processes as organic materials. Moisture, high-energy solar radiation, beetle infestation, mold growth, but also heavy wear and tear as well as inadequate earlier conservation methods can pose great challenges for conservators. Professional exchange with international experts in the field of leather conservation is therefore advisable.

The 12th meeting of the ICOM-CC Leather and Related Materials Working Group will take place online on October 12 and 13, 2022. Organizers are the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and the ICOM-Committee for Conservation. A cordial invitation is extended to all museum conservators, researchers, students and others interested in the conservation of leather objects and objects made of comparable materials. During the afternoons of October 12 and 13 from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m., online lectures and short video presentations by experts from around the world will be offered. This will provide an opportunity to find out about current projects and exchange experiences in the field of leather conservation. Materials related to leather will also be discussed. In addition to the focus on gilded leather, there will be presentations on dating and measuring techniques, as well as on special adhesives and filling materials. Some related art historical topics are also on the program.

Online participation is possible via royalcast. Registration is via english.cultureelerfgoed.nl.

The link to the online webinars will then be sent after receipt of the confirmation e-mail. The meeting “Leather and Related Materials” will be held in English and will be organized by the coordinator of the working group Laurianne Robinet and her colleagues Martine Posthuma de Boer & Eloy Koldeweij from Amsterdam. Participation is free of charge.

Contact: Laurianne Robinet – Coordinator & Eloy Koldeweij – Assistant Coordinator, ICOM-CC Leather and Related Materials Working Group

Lectures:

Céline Bonnot Diconne & Lucile Beck (France): C-14 dating of gilded leather

Jana Bösenberg (Germany): Recovery and restoration of a gilded leather wall hanging from the Löwenburg in Kassel

Giulia Galante, Maëlle Vilbert, Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein, Laurianne Robinet & Gaël Latour (France): Non-invasive characterization of lacquer thickness on gold-plated leathers

Ségolène Girard (France): Development of a sustainable and stable leather surrogate for leather fillings and mending

Marie Kleivane, Vilde Marie Dalåsen & Kathrin Guthmann (Norway): Preparation of a gilded leather wall hanging for the National Museum’s new permanent exhibition

Ingrid Kramer & Eloy Koldeweij (France/Netherlands): Analysis and art-historical classification for the identification of a large group of gilded leather chasubles

Patrizia Labianca & Guia Rossignoli (Italy): The challenge of conserving painted gilded leather cushions

Adam Lowe (Spain): The making of a replica of a 16th century gilded leather hanging for Palazzo Te, Mantua

Ana Oñate Muñoz, Laurianne Robinet, Estelle Van Geyts, Noé Thys, Francisco Mederos-Henry, Stéphane Hocquet & Tim Schouw (Belgium): Gluing historical leather bindings. Comparison of a range of adhesives to investigate alternatives to wheat starch paste

Mara Nimmo & Mariabianca Paris (Italy): The art of damask leather. An archive research

Andrea Pataki-Hundt, Klaus Pesch & Marlen Börngen (Germany) – Klucel® variations to strengthen degraded red leather

Clare Taylor (England): An authentic material? Gilded imitation leather in late nineteenth-century Britain

24.12.2024

Natursteine Lediger celebrates its 50th anniversary

Building design

The Wiesbaden Chamber of Crafts congratulates the second-generation family business on its 50th anniversary with a certificate. On the occasion of the company’s 50th anniversary, Klaus Repp, President of the Chamber of Skilled Crafts, presented the managing directors with the certificate and the best wishes of the Wiesbaden Chamber of Skilled Crafts. Klaus Zeller, head of the Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern District Craftsmen’s Association and District Chief Master Karl Malter from the Hesse Central Stonemasons’ Guild also congratulated them.Advertorial Article Parallax Article For 50 […]

The Wiesbaden Chamber of Crafts congratulates the second-generation family business on its 50th anniversary with a certificate.

The family business Lediger Natursteine GmbH from Hesse is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Photo: Lediger Natursteine

To mark the company’s 50th anniversary, Chamber of Crafts President Klaus Repp presented the managing directors with a certificate and best wishes from the Wiesbaden Chamber of Crafts. Klaus Zeller, head of the Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern District Craftsmen’s Association and District Chief Master Karl Malter from the Hesse Central Stonemasons’ Guild also congratulated them.

Ernst Lediger founded his natural stone business as a GbR in Erlensee in 1968. Today, his daughter Katja Lediger-Neuberger and her husband Hans-Peter Neuberger are the second generation to run the business. The company moved in 1979 because the premises and storage space had become too small. A new building followed.
The current managing director Katja Lediger-Neuberger passed her master craftsman’s examination in 1997, Hans-Peter Neuberger passed it a year later. In 2007, he took over the management and the company was converted into a limited company. The company’s range of services includes individual bathrooms, kitchens, staircases and terraces, as well as table tops, window sills and gravestones. In addition to the couple, there is one employee and one apprentice.

14.01.2025

Event

White pigeons in Munich

Building design

Art

“Les Colombes” can be seen again, a multimedia installation by artist Michael Pendry in the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Munich.

The church doors are wide open, strange sounds and a mysterious purple glow lure passers-by inside: “Les Colombes” can be seen again, a multimedia installation by artist Michael Pendry.

The bright baroque scrollwork of the Heilig-Geist-Kirche forms a cheerful backdrop for 2,000 white paper doves, which appear to float in a swarm through the nave. Shifting colors of light seem to keep the flock in motion, but in reality only a breeze comes through the doors from time to time. The doves are accompanied by a cloud of sound from the electro-pop band “Digital Haze”. In a word: enchanting.

Organization: Kathleen Helm; technical direction: Sebastian Weiss, PWMP; light/sound: Florian Kubosch, Audio Concept; music: Cathi von Spannenberg, Emin Currado, Digital Haze

Church of the Holy Spirit, Munich

Until May 25, daily from 8 to 11:30 pm

Photos: Sebastian Krawczyk