Interior workshop with projects underway.

Expertise

In conservation and restoration, one of the main precepts you follow is trying to make your processes reversible. This way, if future knowledge or information comes down through study and research such that what you have done now can be reversed later, and a superior process can then effect a superior outcome, all the better.

This is how we think, how we work,
and how we view our craft at Bodine Conservations. It is not enough to reverse the ill fortune of a battered grandfather clock for this moment alone, and be done with it. That clock’s future conservation is more important yet. Invariably, a better solution may evolve, and when it does we wish that our work now will have become the means to a superior end then.

Mark at work carving.

The test of time
Standing the test of time is key, whether conserving one piece in relatively good health or restoring another that has literally fallen apart. It is an esoteric balance, one that each day's work demonstrates. Not just is the casting or marquetry in itself necessarily worthy, but so too is our dedi-
cated approach to each such process as well as the integration of several processes together.

Creative processes, alone
or together
The drop-down list (to the right) of different creative processes for the decorative arts is by no means finite. (Click on any desired.) These are the processes, however, to which we’ve had the most consistent exposure because they are the most common. Chances are that the piece you entrust to us will require work in one, two, three or even more of these areas. Each piece has its own character and its own custom solution.