Providing world-class art conservation and restoration services across the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, focused on 3-dimensional decorative arts objects, including furniture and Asian lacquer.
 Black Rhinoceros Specimen
Kathryn Whitney©2019 California Academy of Sciences
Materials: skin, horns, glass, metal, and taxidermy plaster |  Figure, Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo), 20th century
Private collection
Materials: painted earthenware |  Toe-nayar gong stand, Burma, 19th - early 20th century
Private collector
Materials: wood, gold leaf, red lacquer, mirror, glass, bone, bronze |
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 Table Top Stone Screen, China, early 19th century
Private Collection
Materials: rosewood, translucent hardstone, paint, Asian lacquer |  Writing Cabinet, Dresden, Germany, 1750
Courtesy of V&A Images
Materials: oak and birch construction; kingwood, snakewood, amaranthe, mother-of-pearl veneer/inlay; gilt brass (ormolu) and brass mounts |  Chair, Carlo Bugatti, Italy, 1895-1900
Courtesy of V&A Images
Materials: ebonized walnut, painted and varnished vellum, stamped brass, silk cords |
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 Shrine Figure, Nigeria, Cross River, Ijo people, 20th century
Courtesy of FAMSF
Materials: wood, glass eyes, pigment |  Boullework Coffer-on-stand, France, c. 1820
Courtesy of Wallace Collection
Materials: oak and pine construction, ebony veneer, turtleshell and brass veneer (Boullework), gilt-brass mounts (ormolu) |  Table Cabinet, Japan, 19th century
Courtesy of V&A Images
Materials: wood, black lacquer, gold flakes and powders, gold foil, metal fittings |
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 Devotional Object, Trapani, Italy, 1660-1680
Courtesy of FAMSF
Materials: softwood, jasper, marble, silvered copper alloy, gilded copper alloy, red coral, silk velvet |
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Selected Institutional Clients
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Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
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California Academy of Sciences
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California Missions
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Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University
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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (de Young and Legion of Honor)
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Foundation for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
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Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Oakland Museum of California
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Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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San Francisco State University
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World Monument Fund