RESTORATION

We restore antique and period piece gilded frames & furniture. Over time old pieces can flake, chip, break or get woodworm. We treat your precious pieces to become as good as new. Luckily the making and treating gilded frames has been the same method for the last 4000 years. We use a melody of traditional techniques to stabilise fractured wood and gesso pieces to last the test of time. Pieces often exhibit stories their history that reveal themselves during the restoration. Conservation grade cleaning, consolidation, painting and gilding breathes new life into frames and furniture making them either bright and new or restored to enhance their natural brilliance. Contemporary finishes or an aged patina will help your pieces to last a hundred years more.

Case Study 1.
BEFORE
BEFORE: The damage before that needed restoring. Cracks in th Gesso
BEFORE: The damage before that needed restoring. Cracks in th Gesso
BEFORE: corner cracks
BEFORE: corner cracks
BEFORE: Lots of chipped Gesso.
BEFORE: Lots of chipped Gesso.
cleaning 300 years worth of grime off to reveal a new patina.
cleaning 300 years worth of grime off to reveal a new patina.
DURING
Cleaning off the old black grime
Cleaning off the old black grime
injecting gesso into the cracks
injecting gesso into the cracks
fashioning a new piece of wood for missing corner section
fashioning a new piece of wood for missing corner section
fine tuning the new patina
fine tuning the new patina
building up gesso to fill old chipped gesso
building up gesso to fill old chipped gesso
silk fabric used to strengthen the corners, then painted over with gesso and gilded.
silk fabric used to strengthen the corners, then painted over with gesso and gilded.
restoring the new patina
restoring the new patina
Case Study 2.