Restoration of an antique chest

Welcome to today’s video where you saw the restoration of antique dressers with a series of drawers on short legs. Antique furniture and chests of drawers have an interesting history. In the past, people often bought antique furniture for modern interiors. A combination of modern and antique furniture is popular today. Styles that are popular include 1st Republic design, art-deco functionalism, and even socialist-era style. Antique chests of drawers are highly valued pieces of furniture and can come from different periods and styles such as Baroque, Rococo, Empire or Art Nouveau. These chests of drawers are made of high-quality wood and decorated with details from different types of veneer. This technique is called marquetry. The word intarsia means insertion in Arabic. It is a technique that they already used in Egypt. Exceptionally beautiful marquetry was born in the Italian Renaissance, where temples were mainly decorated with richly inlaid patterns. This Italian style spread
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