José: I believe that quality is the result of many ingredients: knowledge, care, good materials and a skilled hand. There are lots of hours of training, reading, practising…in fact just learning before successfully making an object that can be considered excellent.

Rafael: We founded our workshop in 2013. We both studied restoration and conservation but in truth each piece that you restore has its own history, that of the person who made it with his techniques, so each time you learn something new. We had to make talc flowers for a sculpture and continued to make them after for other purposes.

José: Restoration is more than a craft; it is technical and scientific. It is a trade that requires many hours of detailed work. In addition, as restorers, we know an infinity of artistic and artisanal techniques. We must know these techniques in order to understand how works of art or crafts are made, in order to restore them properly.

Rafael: We are surrounded by art and beauty. Andalusia has an enormous heritage, thousands of years of history have seen so many cultures leave behind aesthetic wealth. From the Roman occupation to the Omeyas, the Habsburg king to the present day, there are so many marvellous buildings.