ARTIST WORKING WITH GOLD LEAF

Elegance and refinement for classic but timeless furniture

The elegance of gold leaf

The artisan gilding with gold leaf is one of the processes proposed by FZ Arredamenti. Our company, headquartered at 33 via Maurizio Iaconelli, in San Cesareo, in the province of Rome, will be able to enrich and customise your furniture made of wood or other materials in a refined way, creating a product paying undivided attention to the smallest details.

Leaf gilding, an artisanal technique with ancient origins

The artistic technique of artisanal gilding with pure gold leaf has predominantly early medieval origins, a period in which it was used for the creation of illuminated manuscripts, icons, and panel painting in general. An extremely thin gold foil is applied with a procedure that has remained unchanged over the centuries, which involves careful preparation of the support that will then be gilded.

The technique of artisanal gilding with gold leaf developed after the Middle Ages, with a strong increase in the 17th and 18th centuries - the periods when the Baroque and Rococo styles started to spread - continuing with good artistic examples also during the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century. Used in various artistic fields, its application is also aimed at high-quality craftsmanship of wood, iron, stones, plasters, and terracotta.

Some examples of the application of this ancient artistic technique are scattered all over the world. But the places where it was mainly practised are those in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Europe.

Before After

The processing phases of gilding

Discover in the gallery below all the work behind the artisan gilding with gold leaf performed by the experts of FZ Arredamenti, in San Cesareo. This type of processing finds application above all on wooden furniture but also on other house objects and even beyond.