Our goal is antique preservation in the true style of the European Renaissance Tradition. Over the past 20 years, our hands have been guided in all restorations by the sense of pride and honor that our forefathers established in the creation of their masterpieces. Antiques, as we see them now were created in a much simpler time, a time when we were not splitting atoms, a time when the weather tomorrow really mattered, and a time when books were written by hand. 

The Masters had to preserve their works from extreme atmospheric changes and thus they created Shellac. Shellac is the mixture of alcohol, tree resins and insect excrement.  Not only is it beautiful because of the depth it accentuates in the grain of the wood but it ages to an extraordinary patina and it truly lasts through the most unlikely conditions.

In Brief: Only Royalty could afford finely crafted and inlayed furniture. The stone castles they lived in were freezing cold.  Large bonfires were built to heat the immense rooms with inordinately high ceilings. Fires were only kept burning when the Royalty were in attendance therefor the furniture, art and decorative objects in the room would go from freezing temperatures to blistering heat and back to freezing again with in a few short hours.  Undoubtedly bad for the furnishings; none the less this was a daily occurrence. 

Contemporary finishes and artifical polyurethane would rapidly disintegrate if put under the same conditions.