Christian Hahn's program GsunTheim will be broadcasted on Sunday, March 18 at 11:25.

To organize a joyful mess, there is nothing like a television crew coming to shoot a program with comedians in the Musée du Bagage.

1 director, 1 script-girl, 1 makeup artist, 3 grips, 2 cameramen, 1 sound engineer, 1 assistant director, actors, 2 presenters,
Add cables, wires, spotlights, crates…

Shake it all… and there it is… It is a joyful mess for 2 days.

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It's not every day that we find such a lot of trunks…

Photo before restoration

There are some hazy mornings when, on opening our email box, we believe we are not sufficiently awake to believe what we see…

Thus, one morning, we received the below photos.

I examined them well and I thought that, for "parts", in a cannibalizing process, it could be useful.

The diagnosis is simple:

- The lid of that wardrobe trunk has vanished (canvas and wood)
- One of the bottom slats is totally "rotten"
- Lozine is destroyed

The trunk has all its pieces.

But when we brought back that trunk to the workshop, we said to ourselves that the challenge of restoring it would be really interesting, to test ourselves.

They are the restoration steps of that trunk that I propose to describe.

Few workshops agree to show their "methods"… On the contrary I think that the description of the work will enable many amateurs to think it over before embarking on this type of works. But that will also encourage you not to discard partially destroyed parts.

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Here is a beautiful Louis Vuitton women hat trunk.

It is a monogrammed version, with lozine bindings, leather handles, and brass hardware.

Our client bought it abroad on a public auction.

She brought it to us for restoration.

I propose here to see the result, after:
- cleaning the brass hardware
- cleaning the canvas
- mending the scratches

We are often asked for more tips about restoring... and the first tip that we reveal to you, for that Vuitton restoration, is that we have used NO product to clean the brass hardware. Everything is handmade. Ban "Miror" and other miracle pastes.

Once the restoration is finished, we will use however on the metal parts, a special wax, based on petroleum, to ensure preservation, limit contact with air and thus avoid oxidation.

We still have work, but the trunk already looks better… does not it?

The rest when the trunk will be totally restored.