Assessment of damages

• Furniture, wooden sculptures, musical instruments, gilded and painted picture and mirror frames
• Veneer and marquetry
• • Inlays of ivory, bone, horn, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell
• Marble tops and inlays
• Linings of paper, leather and fabric
• Cane and rush seats

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Structural repairs

• Reinstate functionality of drawers, cabinet doors and chair and table frames
• Replace missing hardware in the style contemporary to the piece
• Consolidate weakened wood e.g. due to wood worm infestation
• Reconstruct missing chair or table legs
• Stabilize wobbly pieces of furniture and frames and re-attach broken off elements
  

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Restoration of decorative elements

• Replace lost elements, e.g. replace lost veneer or carvings with new wood
• Reattach loose veneer, marquetry, inlays and broken off carving
• Color match newly added pieces to the surrounding areas
  

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Surface and varnish treatments

• Separating later from earlier or original paint layers
• Treatment of dull and delaminating varnishes, scratches and losses
• Varnishing and french-polishing of wooden surfaces
• Non-traditional and traditional water and oil gilding
  

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First aid

• Stabilize loose and flaking gilding, veneer, varnish or paint before moving or packing for transport
• Reinstate stability of after impact damage, basement flooding or fire

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