unlike the traditional “varnishing day” (below), or those at the salon de paris that deborah davis describes in her excellent, fascinating book, strapless, varnishing days at our little studio are all about cleaning and making sure things are washed, swept, vacuumed, swiffer’d and totally dust-free.  (and when using the gorgeous but especially unforgiving high-gloss varnishes and lacquers, we even change out the air filters…it’s [...]