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Cabinetmaker the trade
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 Profile: The cabinetmaker precise, is reflected, highly qualified: able to adapt to the various techniques and materials, the cabinetmaker also has taste and know-how as regards furniture. Cabinet work
Formations: CAPE and BEP make it possible to embrace the career without the vat.
Level vat, of many patents, standard BTM, BP in Industries of wood, BMA, or BM.
On the level vat + 2, you can choose a BTS in Art of the habitat or a BTS Productique wood and furnishing.
Outlets: the majority of the skilled workers start their career in the workshop which formed them, but it is not rare to see cabinetmakers creating their own company quickly.
Domestic furniture represents more than one third of the activity, followed by the restoration. In the public, the institutions very recruit restorers of pieces of furniture with high level (vat + 2 to + 4 required).
Wages: A foreman touches approximately 1.500€ Nets, and at the end of the carriére, it will perceive until 3.000€.
In the public, a restorer can claim with the same remuneration.
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The cabinetmaker carries out either a whole or part of furniture, or a prototype for a series production. He works in workshop starting from technical documents (sketch of the piece of furniture to be realized). He binds aesthetic research on furniture and the settling of the models with their manufacture. Good draughtsman, it is rigorous, precise and has a real knowledge of the various styles of furniture.
The cabinetmaker is distinguished from the carpenter by his production more than by his technique. The carpenter rather completes alteration work to measure and the installation carries out some. Contrary to the cabinetmaker he works in workshop and on the building sites.
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Trades of arts
COUNCIL OF the TRADES Of ART
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75008 - Paris
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Guild chambers
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 Techniques
Reproduction of forms and models historical.
Compatibility of the techniques and materials implemented with those of the period concerned: modes of assembly, kinds of the wood, metals, matters of animal or vegetable origin, products additional (adhesives, coated…) and of completion (dyed, protection…).
There in the absence of reliable models on the market, we make make or forge ourselves the major part of the latches, strap hinges and locks which we need, pressing us still on historical models.
Examples of realization:
Copy according to an original of XVème century (private collection).
Oak, assembly with tenon-mortise pinned.
Decoration of the panels with folds of towel in frontage and on the sides.
Strap hinges and sash bolt posed on leather.
Copy according to an original of XVème century (private collection).
Oak, assembly with tenon-mortise pinned.
2 doors and 2 thin layers.
Decoration with folds of towel on the panels of the doors.
Sculpture of Gothic blind arcades on the central panel.
Strap hinges and sash bolts posed on leather.
Visible with the castle of Crèvecoeur (Normandy).
Copy according to a detail of the work of Van der Weyden, “co. Madeleine reading”, National Gallery - London.
Oak, assembly with tenon-mortise pinned.
Wrought iron.
Gothic sculpture of blind arcades in frontage and on the sides.
Copy according to the model exposed to the Museum of Decorative Arts (Paris), XVème century.
Oak, mortice and tenon joints pinned.
Sit opening. Frontage and panels on carved sides with decoration of folds of towel, and fenestrations of the type blazing, with open-type screen and blind on the file.
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 • Chairs, armchairs, small tables, small furniture
The chairs and the armchairs gondoles, this name is in relation to the curvilinear shape of their file, forms which points out that of the Venetian gondoles. The often openwork file presents a central reason, its feet finish in “sabres”.
The upper part is tilted towards the back pointing out the line of the beds boats.
The chairs will show the same characteristics with like reasons for the file the crossed arrows, this warlike emblem symbol of the republican freedom recently acquired after the French revolution.
One also raises the inspiration brought by the countryside of Egypt where the taste caused for art gréco-Roman following the excavations of Herculanum and Pompéi is illustrated in furniture.
The small tables will be bronze pedestal tables gilded, tripod tables in mahogany tree with applications of gilded bronze, of the small worktables in mahogany tree decorated with applications out of bronze gilded finely engraved. They present forms varied with plates round, oval, square or rectangular. They will be covered with wood or marble posed on the belt.
Hairdressers in swivelling mahogany tree with mirrors decorated with gilded bronzes, the tables to be written, often decorated with swan necks to the feet decorated with claws with lion. This furniture for the majority is carried out in solid mahogany or plating of mahogany tree.
These small pieces of furniture are characteristic of Empire furniture and the whole of the decorative elements which compose it.
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