Wallrocks Restoration Gallery – Some like their antiques gleaming and others prefer a more subtle original look. Determining how an antique will look after it has been restored is not always easy – even for a well trained eye. To make this easier for our clients, Wallrocks have compiled a number of different galleries of our furniture before and after they were restored, to give clients a guide as to how our French, English and Italian antiques can be custom restored to suit individual client tastes and to see how they do transform. We buy most of our pieces in original condition – that is un-restored. This allows us to verify authenticity which is important, and means clients can customise the pieces to their own specific requirements. Browse our portfolio below.
We knew how special these chairs were when we bought them, however they'd been over-painted with green/gold paint and it was going to take a client with a fair amount of imagination or knowledge to understand what they were before they were restored. That client did walk in one day, and sure enough, as we were stripping off the original fabric, written on the calico cover was...