Glazing

Elegance is in the details.

A car body is patiently polished; the brush gliding over a marvelous pastry gives it its desirable glaze; every masterpiece in painting requires its final varnish.

For the pleasure of it, we feel moved to evoke here the sfumato dear to da Vinci.

Sfumato, then, from the Italian "fumare," which means "vaporous": this painting technique that Leonardo had the secret to, and which he described as "without lines or borders, in the manner of smoke or beyond the focal plane." The result is an impression of volume, somewhat vaporous around faces and contours, obtained by layering several extremely delicate coats of paint that give a subject's edges an evanescent appearance.

"To create this impression of volume and evanescence, the artist multiplies the layers of paint – extremely fine glazes, on the order of 1 to 2 micrometers (a thousandth of a millimeter), which ultimately reach 30 to 40 micrometers, no more."

Ask our workshop for a polish to take your shoes into another dimension: depth, shine… because yes, polishing elevates form and material.