Professional Care
for Your Fine Furniture
Furniture Conservation
We work on solid wood, veneered, marquetry-covered, and inlaid artifacts from chairs to desks, Chest of Drawers, and bookcases.
Our specialty is conserving pre-industrial antique furniture, but we offer solutions for industrial-era furniture.
Our work is to assess how to maintain the piece's integrity while respecting ethics, structural stability, original aesthetics, contemporary conservation science, and traditions.
We use the latest conservation technics and traditional processes in compliance with the American Institute of Conservation Code of Ethics and Guidelines.
Inserting Liquid Hide Glue under kingwood sawn veneer blister
Louis XV mantel Clock after Conservation
Adapting an antique key to fit a French Chest of Drawer lock. A new Louis XV head will be brazed and gilt.
Creating a custom emulsion using the MCP (Modular Cleaning Program) to target and remove a specific stain or finish
Before and after cleaning with individually tailored aqueous solutions. The wood is cleaned of pollutants and the color revived.
Using heat to soften the failing low molecular weight epoxy used to fastened the brass veneer to this desk.
After cleaning the epoxy, the brass veneer are reattached using Fish glue under vacuum.
Stabilization of a warped and broken drop-front
Carved replacement for a lost claw foot on an American Chippendale block tront desk
Coloration and patina of the replacement back claw foot
Chest of Drawers with four missing legs. The original legs covered in rare veneer were discarded by movers, including the decorative bronzes.
Break due to mishandling and insect damage
Legless Chest of Drawer after Conservation/Restoration Treatment
Structural crack on the drawer front of a French chest of drawers
In the process of building up color and patina to match the original finish on new carvings
