
Artifacts: Gilders, Frame makers, Restorations, and Fine Art Gallery
Join us for our Annual Open House during Five Rivers Arts Alliance's "Art Downtown and All Around"
We will be open
Friday Dec. 4 from 5-8 pm
Saturday Dec. 5 from 10-5
Sunday Dec. 6 from Noon-4
You can see other studio listings in the Bath, Brunswick, Topsham area by checking out http://www.fiveriversartsalliance.org
We're at 13 Main Street in Topsham, just over the bridge from Brunswick!
Time:5:00PM Friday, December 4th
Location:13 Main Street, Topsham, Maine

Artifacts: Gilders, Frame makers, Restorations, and Fine Art Gallery the latest post for a recent project we completed
Source: www.gildedfarmer.wordpress.com
November 16, 2009 at 11:50 pm (gilding, gold leaf, picture frame) Tags: art, artist, carving, custom design, fine art, gilder, gilding, gold leaf, interior design, John Calvin Stevens, Joshua Bergey, maine, mirror, overmantle, picture frame, Portland Maine

Artifacts: Gilders, Frame makers, Restorations, and Fine Art Gallery Sharing a gilding project in Nashville, TN
Source: www.nashville.gov
The Athena statue in Nashville's Parthenon is in the process of being gilded in 23.75 karat gold leaf by local gilder Lou Reed. The statue was originally completed by artist Alan LeQuire in May of 1990. ...

Artifacts: Gilders, Frame makers, Restorations, and Fine Art Gallery This article supports one of the reasons I educate my clients on the benefits of getting hand-made frames from a shop like Artifacts---we exclusively use domestic forest products for our finished frames. Too many distributors still sell Ramin based wood products in their catalogs
Source: yaleglobal.yale.edu
The logging of Indonesian ramin wood, a material used in such products as pool cues and picture frames, has largely been made illegal by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) ...

October marks the second month of our year-long give-aways celebrating our Twentieth year in business as Artifacts...

Artifacts: Gilders, Frame makers, Restorations, and Fine Art Gallery Some of these photos will probably end up in one of my blogs, so please forgive the redundancy, but I'm too darn excited to have just finished this project and I need to share!

As promised--- we are beginning our year long celebration of being in business as Artifacts for twenty years. The official anniversary will be next July, only, like with birthdays, I like to celebrate these sorts of things as a season...

Artifacts: Gilders, Frame makers, Restorations, and Fine Art Gallery Reposting image from the Tajan catalog sale 2005 because the link seems to be broken. Inspiration comes from many sources: in this case it is the gold and lacquer work of Gaston Suisse on a circa 1925 folding screen: lacquer, with gold leaf, oxidized white gold, copper, and silver leaf.

Artifacts: Gilders, Frame makers, Restorations, and Fine Art Gallery The intrepid Jacob Simon at the National Portrait Gallery is a great resource for historic information
Source: www.npg.org.uk
Fig. 1 - Transitional picture frame, corner detail (sight size 83.8 x 57.2 cm, section width 20.3 cm) stamped P.F.MILLET for Pierre-Francois Millet (master carver at the Academy of St Luc, 12 November, 1760, master carpenter 1767). Arnold Wiggins & Sons Ltd, London, no. 8272.

Artifacts: Gilders, Frame makers, Restorations, and Fine Art Gallery The past is always a rich source for inspiration...
Source: www.robertolodicornici.com
Roberto Lodi Antiquario Cornici Antiche - Old Frames Antique Dealing - Via Fonte D'Abisso 10 - Modena - Italy Tel. +39 059 224604

One of the most rewarding aspects of our business is being able to share with clients our passion for art history, especially the wealth of it here in Maine. When visiting clients at their homes, it is exciting to see their collections and to learn new things...
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