The "Maison André" has a brilliant past in cabinetmaking because it was the
restorer of the most complex French furniture, from Gulbenkian collection to
Niarkos.
Formerly, to repair
a marquetery was synonym to wear out it and to bring it to its disappearance,
because it was necessary to send out the veneer having restuck it. Today, cabinetmakers
researchers, whom we greet here, brought us modern methods of restoration which
allow us to repair a marquetry without wearing it out. One of the big difficulties
of the restoration of furniture, it is to know how to find or preserve a homogeneous
and sweet colour of wood. The risk is big to obtain a flashy piece of furniture
among which the too thick and brilliant varnish, as the pedal of the piano,
would hide badly an evident lack of technique