BELMAL - the restoration or renovation of antique steamer trunks and vintage luggage


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	'4R', or Restoration, Renovation, Reflecting, and Recycling BELMAL created and implements its '4R' principle: Restoration, Renovation, Recycling, and Reflection. The 4R concept is also found in our workshop courses. Restoration. At our museum and in our workshop restoring means the refreshing of a trunk, including repairs, and in a manner that matches the trunk's make or origin, its age, its past use and patina (the charm of the 'wear-and-tear' ), in other words: its destiny or life. Renovation is the refitting of a trunk into a more or less new object; undertaken mostly with new, or nearly new, but contemporary base materials. Reflection is the master process of serenely reflecting about 'borderline' cases; those 'either-or' type of situations: trunks that require either a 'leave-as-is', or a restoration, or a renovation, or eventually the NLC recycling. Recycling is part of BELMAL's philosophy. The process of recycling extends beyond the mere dismantling and responsible disposal of a trunk and its parts. In line with its "New Life Cycle" (NLC) vision, BELMAL suggests that vintage trunks in a 'real-bad-state' nevertheless be salvaged, and used as a piece of furniture, either decorative, or functional, or both. \| home \| restoration \| archives \| virtual visit \| expertise \| manufacture \| institute \|
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© Copyright 2012, Bridgegate o.b.o. BELMAL Museum and Trunks Restoration and ITES Institute for Travel Equipment & Luggage History Studies. All rights strictly reserved for all countries. Reproduction of any content of this website is prohibited \| Updated on 9 April 2012


Contact : see homepage		français Nederlands
	\| home \| restoration \| archives \| virtual visit \| expertise \| manufacture \| institute \|
	'4R', or Restoration, Renovation, Reflecting, and Recycling BELMAL created and implements its '4R' principle: Restoration, Renovation, Recycling, and Reflection. The 4R concept is also found in our workshop courses. Restoration. At our museum and in our workshop restoring means the refreshing of a trunk, including repairs, and in a manner that matches the trunk's make or origin, its age, its past use and patina (the charm of the 'wear-and-tear' ), in other words: its destiny or life. Renovation is the refitting of a trunk into a more or less new object; undertaken mostly with new, or nearly new, but contemporary base materials. Reflection is the master process of serenely reflecting about 'borderline' cases; those 'either-or' type of situations: trunks that require either a 'leave-as-is', or a restoration, or a renovation, or eventually the NLC recycling. Recycling is part of BELMAL's philosophy. The process of recycling extends beyond the mere dismantling and responsible disposal of a trunk and its parts. In line with its "New Life Cycle" (NLC) vision, BELMAL suggests that vintage trunks in a 'real-bad-state' nevertheless be salvaged, and used as a piece of furniture, either decorative, or functional, or both. \| home \| restoration \| archives \| virtual visit \| expertise \| manufacture \| institute \|
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© Copyright 2012, Bridgegate o.b.o. BELMAL Museum and Trunks Restoration and ITES Institute for Travel Equipment & Luggage History Studies. All rights strictly reserved for all countries. Reproduction of any content of this website is prohibited \| Updated on 9 April 2012