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Posts tagged “art & furniture restoration”

Good Questions: Who Can Repair This Broken Chair?

Dear AT, I have a chair in need of seat repair. The seat was made of leather straps, but they are all cracked and broken. I bought it with the straps busted, hoping to get them replaced, but this had...

NY Good Questions: Is it Possible to Repair This Myself?

Dear AT, I have a metal chair frame that was salvaged from being disposed of. Even in this state it is functional with cushions. However, I would like to refinish the frame. Aside from the hing...

NY Good Questions: Furniture Restoration Spots in NYC?

Dear AT, I picked up a really great Heywood-Wakefield coffee table on Craigslist this week -- or at least, it WILL be a really great table someday. For now, it needs to be refinished. The damage ...

Georgetown Refinishing (Furniture Repair)
Washington, DC

This U.S. post office cubby cabinet was recently picked up at the Raleigh, NC flea market in excellent condition, but suffered damage during the journey to DC. The cabinet was made in 1930 and used t...

NY Good Questions: NYC Based Furniture Repair Man?

Hello AT, I bought five Danish teak chairs a couple years ago, and a few of them are coming loose and splitting, to the point where they can no longer be used safely. Is there anyone in New York wh...

Top 10: Rug Cutters

Calling this a top 10 list is a bit of an overstatement, because we only know of two, but we hew to convention. Shopping for a rug recently we interviewed Steven Forrey at The Rug Company what folks ...

Center44 Antiques and Art

Antiques up to your eyeballs. Center 44, on 44th Street in midtown, is full of antiques from ancient periods right up through the 20th century. There are more than 70 international dealers here, tak...

Fresh Kills

Mid-Century with Edge. Fresh Kills was a clear favorite of the newcomers in our Top Shops 2006. A wonderfully eclectic mix of vintage and new pieces, the Williamsburg shop has a sophisticated eye fo...

John De Lorenzo Bros. Welding

This is a hot tip. Dante has a vintage Eames management chair that broke a few weeks back, and she wanted to fix it rather than toss it. She found John De Lorenzo Bros on Grand Street and carried ...

Nicholas Dufine Furniture Decorators

Untested by us as of yet and unreviewed by any other source we could find, we recently discovered Nicholas Dufine who specializes in custom finishing, antique restoration and re-upholstering. Since th...

Elizabeth Hargraves: Antique Surface Restoration

Dept. of Fixes & Repairs. There comes a time in everyone's life when you fall in love with a piece of furniture that has seen better times. Elizabeth Hargraves is a specialist in antique surface r...

The Furniture Joint: Renew Yourself

The kind of store we'd like to have. A little bit of old fashioned shopkeeping mixed in with modern, open-door-policy smarts, The Furniture Joint is the place to go if you are having issue with your ...