Antique Furnishings Conservator and Lecturer:

Standing room only audience for lecture at the Taft Museum “Primer on Pampering” on care, conservation, and restoration of fine home furnishings.

 

Can speak authoritatively on

• craft techniques through the ages

• antique finishes and their identification and care

• dating furnishings by the manufacturing process

• wood species and their various uses

 

Has experience with

• Various inlays from Flemish  to German Biedermeier veneer

• French Gothic Renaissance to Empire

• Italian Baroque to Art Nouveau

• English Tudor Gothic to Victorian

• American Colonial to Shaker

• Arts & Crafts

 

Knowledgeable of furnishings that are

• Period or reproductions

• European or domestic

 

Specialties include

• Carving

• Inlay & Veneer

• Dutchmen and butterflies

• Saving old finishes

• Refinishing without making piece look new

• Color blending repairs

 

Historical pieces worked on

• President Taft’s Desk – Taft Birthplace

• Vice President Johnson’ (Lincoln era) desk

• Dag Hammarskjöld’s Desk

• Jack London’s Desk

 

Some interesting stories

• Repaired one half section of a Double D table run over by a forklift truck

• Repaired a dresser that fell off a truck on I-71

• Restored a house full of Wallace Nutting Furniture subjected to hundreds of cats for years

• Restored a burnt artifact from the circus train that was destroyed in the 1900’s in Terrace Park

• Repaired a split piano lid

 

Noteworthy projects

• Wooten Desk, Étagère, Table and Chairs from the Taft Birthplace

• 15th Century Flemish chest with solid gold pulls

• Biedermeier chest with Phyfe Legs

• Carved desk of the Archbishop

• Pig Carving on Herschede Grandfather Clock

• French Paper Mache Inlaid table

• Afghanistan Ivory and Olive wood Chest

 As a Speaker:

      45 Years as Lead Horse in the Carriage Trade

I am available to talk to your group or a show. 

 

513-272-2900

 

  Suggested topics:

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• "Primer on Pampering" on care, conservation, and restoration of fine home furnishings.

• "Expert in your pocket" What to look for when purchasing antiques.