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Art Restoration: Preserving History

December 16

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(Photo of "Landscape" painting half cleaned)

Over the centuries, treasured antiques and art objects have suffered the wear and tear of everyday life. In order to preserve these objects, there are experienced professionals to repair them. Restorers and conservators have been giving new life to anything from cathedral murals to the ashtray you made in art class when you were 5 years old. It takes an amazing amount of skill and patience to be a restoration professional. Laura Pate of Brown Mountain Art Restoration and her tremendous staff have been conserving, restoring and preserving our treasures for almost 20 years. Pate, with a sterling art and design reputation, shares her insight on the world of restoration with Design Guide.

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Hermitage Antiques Closes after 10 Years of Business

December 08

Hermitage Antiques Dallas

After ten successful years in the antiques business, Hermitage Antiques, Ltd. is closing. If you are familiar with Hermitage’s reputation for exceptional quality and really interesting European antiques, you will want to go to its showroom right away to take advantage of their exceptional close out pricing! Hermitage Antiques is located at 1313 Slocum St., Suite # 101 in Dallas. See more pictures of some of the many things on sale, after the cut.

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Mixing Traditional Aesthetics for a More Modern Design

December 06

Gibson Gimpel Interior Design Dallas, TX Mixing Traditional with Modern Old and New Interior Design

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Collaboration between the client and interior design team leads to spaces rich with character and personal expression. A client’s unique collection of salvaged architectural elements, art, and existing furniture pieces can serve as inspiration for the design concept, as they did in this Louisiana Vernacular home in Fort Worth, Texas designed by Gibson Gimpel Interior Design. In a new home, the re-purposing of architectural pieces not only creates a sense of history in a new space, it tells a story about the home owner and their family. Interior designers lend expertise in facilitating the process when incorporating these pieces into the design of a home through practiced collaboration with contractors, careful communications through technical drawings, and creative solutions. Interior Designers work to showcase the clients collected elements without costly retro-fitting.

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Found At Sea: CAC Mosaic Designs "Message in a Bottle" Series

November 15

CAC Mosaic Designs Message in a Bottle scientific and historic glass collage art Dallas high-end accesorries

Award-winning artist Connie Chantilis of CAC Mosaic Designs has produced one of the most fascinating works of historic and scientific art, "Message In A Bottle" series. The concept of the Message In A Bottle series is about collecting objects that have a mystical appeal. Through urban archeology, these recovered objects are from the early 1900’s and before: iridescent bottles and burned glass, discarded spark plugs, oxidized metal items and other memories and pieces of the past buried in turn of the century land fills. The energy of the geological specimens entices the art lover with its natural beauty and healing properties.