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Study Carpet, Historic House
Posted: July 7, 2020Repairing a Study carpet with painted in-fills. -
Christening Shawl
Posted: July 6, 2020Conservation cleaning of a large silk christening shawl. -
Woolverstone Dairy 1870
Posted: June 30, 2020GRADE II listed polygonal dairy room, entrance hall, scullery including deteriorated octagonal marble table and stone supports. marble shelves, missing decorative tiles, crested roof, original decorative colour schemes, tiled floors and dados, mullioned windows, shouldered lights. Change of usage to study rooms -
Private Residence, York
Posted: June 25, 2020Following a water leak and catastrophic failure of a historic ceiling in this country house, Britain & Co were employed to remove the marouflage ceiling canvas, conserve offsite and re-hang following the replacement of the ceiling beds. -
Hatfield House, Long Gallery
Posted: June 25, 2020Britain & Co undertook the conservation of the ceiling of the Long Gallery, Hatfield House. This included the stabilisation and repair of plaster cracking, conservation of painted and gilt surfaces, and retouching of repairs. -
‘Dundee from Tayport’ by Joseph Milne (1885)
Posted: June 25, 2020‘Dundee from Tayport’ by Joseph Milne (1885), from the collection of the McManus Galleries, Dundee, was treated and prepared for exhibition display. -
APR at Manchester Jewish Museum
Posted: June 25, 2020We were commissioned to carry out detailed paint research by Manchester Jewish Museum, in order to inform reinstatement of the C19th decorative scheme. This involved onsite sampling, uncoverings using chemical strippers, stencil drawings and lab analysis and interpretation. The final scheme was worked up in CAD to inform the redecoration. -
Locarno Suite, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Posted: June 25, 2020Following a water leak, we were commissioned to selectively repair and reinstate two areas of this elaborate stencilled scheme, including colour matching, gilding and hand-cutting stencils. -
Conservation and mounting of objects for “Do you believe in Magic” Exhibition, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Posted: June 18, 2020Conservation and mounting of objects for "Do you believe in Magic" Exhibition, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery -
Mounting of Staffordshire Hoard objects for loan exhibition, “Warrior Treasures”, Stoke Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, various venues
Posted: June 12, 2020Mounting of Staffordshire Hoard objects for loan exhibition, "Warrior Treasures", Stoke Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, various venues.