Voces del Prado

Working at the carpentry

Luis Lapausa Arango, General Operations Service Technician (Carpenter), 1960-2008

It certainly is a change to switch from being a watchman to a carpenter because, this is something I explained eagerly at any meeting, a watchman's job requires a great deal of sacrifice.
Our work at the carpentry was maintenance. If any of the frames had to be cut, we would cut it, or fix any doors that needed fixing. Just any maintenance required of all the wooden items in the Museum.
I have good memories of Pedro Álvarez, being a man who didn't poke his nose into what you were doing, unless you were doing a poor job. In his understanding you were someone who knew how to do your work and he would let you get along and do it as you considered you should do it. He never pressured you. Not me nor my colleagues in maintenance, which was the department he was in charge of.