by Plowden & Smith | Jan 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Our Senior Paper Conservator David Jones sits down with specialist fine art insurers Smith Greenfield, to share his Top 5 Tips for caring for books… 1. Books are Organic Books are made of organic materials. The text block (the inside pages of a book) consists of...
by Plowden & Smith | Jan 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Plowden & Smith | Dec 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Plowden & Smith | Nov 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
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,...
by Jill Saunders | Oct 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Rita L. Amor Garcia, PhD | Aug 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
(Graffiti Hall of Fame in Valencia, Spain) Graffiti and Street Art have become an unmissable part of contemporary cities. Born in the late 1960s in Philadelphia, graffiti flourished when it took over New York City’s train system in the 1970s. As a movement, it...
