A daughter devastated by the loss of both her parents in eight months was overwhelmed when experts from hit show The Repair Shop restored a beloved family treasure.
Chantal Taylor was grieving the loss of her father David Taylor, when her adored mother Perla Devito passed away just months later in August 2019.
While clearing out their Middlesbrough home, 31-year-old Chantal kept an antique Italian chair that reminded her of a happy childhood and her parents’ love story.
But the gilded, ornate chair was ripped, worn and apparently “beyond repair”, until The Repair Shop experts Jay Blades and Hannah Weston-Smith fixed it in emotional scenes to be shown on BBC1 tonight. “My dad was an antiques dealer in London,” explains marketing manager
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