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Cristal Bénito: the repair of your valuable item is in good hands!
A crystal piece can get damaged, chipped or broken by a moment's clumsiness at home or during a move.

With objects of value or part of a collection or those holding cherished memories, it is difficult to accept the complete loss, or to hide it away because its original beauty is compromised.
Cristal Bénito may be able to restore life to your crystal items. Feel free to contact us and we’ll explore all possible ways in which these pieces can be repaired. You can also telephone our workshop direct on +33 (0)1 42 42 60 76 or come to see us (by appointment only) at the workshop at 188 bis, rue Gabriel Péri - 92700 Colombes – France.

Dali's Venus de Milo
This work, created by the Daum crystal works, was broken and had lost fragments of crystal.
   
  The piece was first of all ground down so that the two parts could be rejoined. Then, two gilded bronze corner pieces were inserted between the two parts to cover the gap and to stabilise the two sections.
Baccarat creation
Following a fall, this limited edition Baccarat piece was chipped and the bronze flames had snapped off.

     
Franck Bénito’s solution was to retool the upper surface
to remove the splinters, then to reattach the bronze flames.

Lalique vase
This piece was displaying a very large chip out of the centre of one side.
 

A simple milling operation was not enough to restore it. So Franck Bénito suggested that once the chip was milled he create two “pontis” in clear crystal symmetrically on either side of the piece perfectly disguising the original damage and also in sympathy with the original object.
 

Glass flames
This piece was part of a chandelier, and some of its glass 'flames' had been either shattered or suffered significant chipping.

 The restoration consisted of repairing the chips, by milling the flames. Then Franck Bénito cut identical, new flames from new glass.

Another vase
The neck of this magnificent piece was chipped in a position where it was difficult to disguise the damage.

Rather than reduce the height of the vase by milling the entire circumference of the neck, because the chip was large Franck Bénito chose to mill just the part where the chip came from, and then to mirror the resulting shape, symmetrically around the neck.