Yolaine Voltz

Yolaine Voltz, a Maître Artisan d’Art conservator-restorer, works for antique dealers, museums, institutions and private collectors in France and abroad. Passionate about the conservation and restoration of antique globes and fans, she helps ensure their long-term preservation and transmission as part of our cultural heritage. She has always enjoyed taking on new artistic and scientific challenges.

Even as a child, she used to spend hours reproducing famous paintings and drawings or repairing objects that had been damaged by time. Between Yolaine Voltz, art and science, it is a passionate relationship.
Five years of study punctuated by courses in chemistry, calligraphy, art history and copying of validated works of art have culminated in a Master’s degree in “Restoration and conservation of graphic art works on paper”.

During an internship at the Musée de l’éventail, the young woman was won over by the aesthetics and the infinite variety of this accessory. Later, in the restoration workshop of the large formats of the BnF, faced with one of the world’s major collections of ancient terrestrial and celestial globes, she discovered another way of travelling round the world. Nowadays, globes and fans are two facets of the same passion for complex, articulated, three-dimensional objects rich in history.

Yolaine Voltz is the sole qualified restorer to have this double expertise in France. She has been practising professionally for 15 years and devotes 100% of her time to this profession.

In her workshop, L’Utile Zéphyr—one of the names given to fans in eighteenth-century France—works of art receive treatments that respect the ethical principles of conservation-restoration: stability, compatibility and reversibility. Whenever a project requires it, Yolaine Voltz also draws on a specialist network of craftspeople with complementary expertise.

To introduce these objects to a wider audience, she gives lectures and demonstrations, writes articles, and is actively involved in specialist associations in France, the United Kingdom and the United States.

She is recognised for her expertise, rigour, enthusiasm and integrity.

Expertise recognised in France and internationally

Fifteen years of expertise, distinctions and international recognition

Since 2010, Yolaine Voltz has developed rare expertise in the conservation and restoration of antique fans and terrestrial and celestial globes. Her career has received several distinctions and has led her to work for collectors, institutions and leading Maisons in France and abroad.

Selected distinctions

2019 — First Prize for an Arts and Crafts Business, Paris Est Marne et Bois
2023 — Medal of Craft Excellence and awarded the title of Maître Artisan d’Art
2025 — Participation in Expo 2025 Osaka
2026 — Laureate of the Rémy Cointreau Foundation for the Transmission of Know-How
2026 — Selected by Cartier to present her expertise at Homo Faber in Venice

Her work has also been featured in Connaissance des Arts and in several television programmes, including on France 3. A major restoration project was also followed by the team of TF1’s Grands Reportages, for an upcoming broadcast.