Furniture Restoration – Plowden & Smith Talk Marquetry With Period Living
Towards the end of 2019, Period Living Magazine visited our Furniture Restoration Workshop in South London to discuss Marquetry… Interview taken from the January 2020 issue of Period Living | Text Karen Bray (additional text Alison Eltham) We visit the...
Church Statue Restoration Project
The carved and gilded wooden figural statue, Our Lady of Peace, was designed in 1920 by the artist Martin Travers for St Mary’s Church in Belgravia to mark the end of the First World War. The statue of Our Lady of Peace has resided in the chapel of Seven...
Invaluable Advice When Caring for Valuable Art Collections
Whether art is acquired as an investment or simply for pleasure, it is imperative that the right choices are made to protect the increasingly diverse and valuable artefacts found in the collections of private individuals. Choices made about display, transport,...
Conserving Conservation: The Value of Traditional Metalworking Skills
Fig. 1 The late Peter ‘Micky’ Willet (deceased April 2019) in the Plowden & Smith metal department cleaning the bore of an antique gun Introduction Contemporary conservation of metallic heritage has emerged from an extensive body of highly skilled...