Custom services: custom work, commissioning work, hiring a buying assistant

If you are a discerning decorator who wants the best quality/price relationship available with the uniqueness of something special made for your specific needs, we can offer the following services:

• Buying assistance and assessment of antiques
There are many antique fairs and individual dealers in Italy with an overwhelming selection of antique and contemporary craft merchandise. We can help you navigate and deal effectively with them to understand the quality of the merchandise and obtain what you want at the best price possible.

• Reproduction or restoration of antiques
We create furniture pieces and accessories that have the presence, colour and feel of fine antiques, and improve with time. We use artisan techniques passed down since the renaissance, and only genuine high quality materials like carved solid wood, real gold leaf, earth pigments and waxes to correctly restore or to create exceptional furniture objects of refined beauty and genuine museum quality.

• From design to construction of furniture, custom carving and wood work
We can design, create and finish furniture in any style. We are happy to accept custom orders and commissions. We work with a carefully selected handful of craftspeople, trained in the Florentine tradition, with highly developed skills that are increasing hard to find in our modern world.

• Design to execution of decoration on furniture or walls
We can offer you custom design, colour and a very high level of specialized decorative skill. Our fine arts training and years of experience in the design industry allow us to offer interior designers an artistic interpretation of their clients needs, professionally delivered. Our clients are some of the most discerning professionals in the design and furniture business worldwide. Orders from individual private clients are also welcomed. For examples and pictures or decoration executed by our workshop please also visit our <blog>

• Custom decorative painting of any kind
Our decorative specialties include: Water gilding, furniture and frame reproduction and restoration, specialized decoration, decorative painting in all styles: Grottesca (grotesque), baroque, rococo, chinoiserie, oriental lacquer, trompe l'oeil, grisaille, quadraturismo, murals, harpsichord decoration including the application of hand printed papers.


Here’s one example of how we can help you expand your unique design options and obtain the interiors you dream of: Custom Antique Doors
There are many possibilities for home owners and designers who are attracted to the beauty and grace of antique Italian doors and wish to shop in Italy for the real thing.

The possibilities for your architectural project:
• buy antique doors
• restore or alter existing old doors
• have new doors created in the style and finish of antique doors.

Why make us a useful and trusted part of your design team?:
We specialize in the restoration or recreation of the painted and gilded decoration on doors and wooden furniture, and we are certified experts in this field, <read about our teachers and consultants> , but our services are broader than this, and we can offer you a range of services that can assist you through from initial contact, the design and planning stages, to delivery of the finished product. You can choose to use us only as ‘finders’ to assist with the locating and purchasing of antique doors, or you can commission us to create custom decorated doors exclusively for your interior.

Consider hiring a buying assistant:
There are many antique fairs and individual dealers in Italy with an overwhelming selection of antique and contemporary craft merchandise. We can help you navigate and deal effectively with them to understand the quality of the merchandise and obtain what you want at the best price possible.


Price shopping with a guide: How to hire a buying assistant from Florenceart.net:
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Daily rate: 400 euros per day for days in the field only, plus travel expenses (area covered: Italy)
You can choose to be accompanied by the buying assistant or send us out independently.

The assistant is responsible for:
• All communications and translations in Italian and English
• All travel arrangements and scheduling of meetings with sellers
• Documenting all objects of interest with digital photography
• Supplying the prospective buyer with detailed notes measurements and photos of each piece of interest, as well as the seller’s information.
• Maintaining correspondence with the prospective buyer and with the seller.
• Packing and shipping arrangements
• All dealings for obtaining permits from the Italian authorities regarding exportation of antiques and works of art.

How to commission custom design or decorative work:
A first contact usually involves a discussion of fees, time line, budget and specifications for the project. We do charge a design fee, usually a minimum of 400 euros, for projects requiring design and on-site visits. This fee is non refundable. We can provide an exact quote for the entire commission when the final designs have been approved.


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Catalogue of our work
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Some examples of our work:

Chest of drawers with chinoiserie decoration on a blue ground with silver gilt	Kitchen cupboard, painted and antiqued	Decorative wall plaque in solid carved wood, gilded and painted.  130cm x 68cm	Yellow Harpsichord 'Jean Bas'
Chest of drawers with chinoiserie, detail	Bedside chests of drawers with chinoiserie decorations	Small solid carved wood panel, gilded and painted, with pomegranate motifs	Yellow Harpsichord 'Jean Bas', detail
Chest of drawers made entirely out of old wood and remnants of an existing 19th century chest of drawers. Painted in Louis 16th style	Detail of the Grottesca (grotesque) decoration on an Italian Virginal	Painted panel of a mythological scene inspired by frescoes in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy	Yellow Harpsichord, open
Chest of drawers, old wood, detail	Detail of the Grottesca (grotesque) decoration on an Italian Virginal	Soundboard decoration	Italian Virginal

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