From Old To New – Glama Rama

It was quite a special moment for me: walking through the streets with a couple of friends – talking, laughing – and then, there it stood: besides a big cluster of old, sleezy furniture – with a broken leg: my future “Leone” :).

I carried it home and Thomas fixed the broken leg – it was nearly perfect – I was in love with it in the first moment I saw it – with all its slashed and faded surface – nevertheless, it was my pretty 2018-bulky-waste treasure I never want to give away anymore.

Nothing better than having a piece of furniture that is nice enough to be appreciated as “special” but not too special to put glass or mugs on it without using coasters – yeah, that’s unstressed life, guys ^^!

Nevertheless, with the years passed by, we finally decided to pimp the Leone and to add some more glow to it :). In July of this year, Thomas took it to the garret and started to grind the old lacquer away. He brought the Leone’s real beauty out: a wonderful intarsia, a gorgeous handwork!!!

I know – a shame considering the beauty discovered – but for us, it was a little bit tooooooo antique (unbelievalbe to write that down!) and we wanted it to come alive with some more pep :). So, Thomas put a layer of copper varnish on it and then another one. The result was a dazzling, cool new look – The “Leone alla Glama Rama” was born ;):

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