Antique frame restoration · Houston
Antique Frame Restoration & Preservation
Our gold leaf department restores and preserves antique frames — from delicate wooden profiles to elaborate carved gilt designs — through meticulous surface cleaning, structural stabilization, ornament casting, and period-accurate regilding.
The work & conservation ethos
Restored by the same hands that gild.
Frame restoration at SBAS lives directly inside our gold leaf department — the master artisans repairing a nineteenth-century frame are the exact same hands water-gilding new bespoke frames every week. That active bench fluency matters: matching a hundred-year-old patinated surface requires knowing intimately how it was built the first time.
Stewardship over erasure. Period frames are historic artifacts in their own right. Our default approach is conservation-minded: we clean, stabilize, and bridge losses so the frame reads as a complete, unified object while its natural history — the gentle wear of a century of handling — remains intact. Full regilding to a bright, pristine surface is reserved only for frames whose original finish is entirely lost or irreversibly compromised.
Restoration services & techniques
From stabilization to regilding.
In the studio
The gilding bench at work.
In the Journal: How to care for — and when to restore — an antique gilded frame.
Begin
Once a work is yours, make us the first call.
Consultations at our Taft Street showroom, or at your home or office.
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