EVERY FINE QUALITY, CARVED WORK for ARCHITECTURE is an ART FORM

ONLY TRADITIONAL HANDCRAFTED ARCHITECTURAL DETAILING: ~ Only the hand of a skilled craftsman can create deep undercuts to give a life-like appearance to delicate details . . . where each flower is suspended on a stem, opened like an umbrella (NEVER with un-natural straight sidewalls, like that of a cup, common to mass-produced products made from molds). Close up detail from LOUIS XVI Pattern 39520 - Ornate Fireplace Mantel in hand carved White Stauary Marble.

PRECISE, HAND-CRAFTED "OLD WORLD" QUALITY by MASTER ARTIFICERS

All fine quality, carved works begin with precise measurements to ensure fit to each client's unique architectural interior. These works are then commissioned one at a time ~ in any historic period style ~ always in traditional materials ~ with exquisite detail by hand. Expertise in Fireplace Mantels . . . original works in Carved Stone, Wood, and other Traditional Materials.

BUILT as NEEDED for EACH CLIENT, COMMISSIONED ONE at a TIME

From an historic drawing (like this one), an antique photo, or just a sketch, our studio can produce fine quality, carved works to create unique Residential, Commercial & Historical interiors: Fireplace Mantels ~ Ceiling Rosettes ~ Columns ~ Corbels ~ Pilasters ~ Carved Mouldings and other ornate architectural elements . . . built as needed for each client.

GOTHIC REVIVAL DESIGN STYLE - Fireplace Mantel (click to enlarge)

1999 - GOTHIC Pattern 02420 - Ornate Fireplace Mantel in hand carved Yellow Lines Marble. 71"W x 51"H x 10"D, Firebox = 41"W x 34"H. (Gothic Revival architecture came to America from England about 1830 to mock Gothic style as a romantic fantasy that implied ancient lineage).

FRENCH DESIGN STYLE - Fireplace Mantel (click to enlarge)

1996 - BAROQUE Pattern 29520 - Elegant Fireplace Mantel in hand carved White Stauary Marble. 60-1/4"W x 51-3/16"H x 10-1/4"D, Firebox = 37"W x 36-1/2"H.

CLASSICAL DESIGN STYLE - Fireplace Mantel (click to enlarge)

1993 - ROMAN COIN Pattern 55720 - Traditional Fireplace Mantel in hand carved polished Dark & Beige Limestone. 66"W x 56"H x 10"D, Firebox = 42"W x 34"H. (Design features "guilloche" style running ornament of interlaced bands popular in the Greco-Roman Revival period.)

ENGLISH MANOR DESIGN STYLE - Fireplace Mantel (click to enlarge)

1990 - ENGLISH TUDOR Pattern 19520 - Stately Fireplace Mantel in hand carved White Marble. 84"W x 59"H x 12"D, Firebox = 50"W x 42"H.

HAND-CRAFTED RESTORATION to MUSEUM QUALITY STANDARDS

1989 - ARCHITECTURAL ARTISANS conservator's studio restores missing carving to return this Antique Cornice Box to its former grandeur. Shown here with all carving restored, but before being guilded and glazed. (Footnote: the white ornamentation is original, the darker ornamentation was hand carved to replace missing or damaged detail . . . all done to museum quality standards using only materials authentic to this historical item.) 

BAROQUE DESIGN STYLE for LAVISH LAS VEGAS CASINO SUITES

1984 - BAROQUE STYLE - hand made carvings on a birch Traditional Fireplace Mantel custom made for the lavish suites at the Golden Nugget Casino Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
 

1982 NEWSPAPER NATIONAL COVERAGE (click to enlarge)

1982 National Press coverage resulting from noted projects in New York for Linda Ronstadt's residence, in Florida for Disney's Epcot Center "British Pavillion", and for California's State Capitol $68 million historical rennovation project.

$68 MILLION HISTORIC RESTORATION of the 1860 CALIFORNIA STATE CAPITOL

1980 to 1981 - ARCHITECTURAL ARTISANS: prominent as 1 of only 2 firms existing in the USA skilled to restore the 1874 ceilings & friezes for the California State Capitol $68MM restoration project. Charcol rubbings made from fragments of the original "parget" ornamentation (photo: lower left) were interpreted as a first step in the restoration process. Our skilled artificers carefully reproduced every graceful detail until an historically accurate 3 foot wide frieze (photo: lower right) was completed . . . repeating this process for each of the unique 19 rooms involved in this phase of the restoration of the California State Capitol in Sacramento, CA.
 

RENOVATION of a PROMINENT CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL LANDMARK

1979 - Carving detail (below) restored by ARCHITECTURAL ARTISANS during the rennovation of the 1842 Workman Homestead in Industry, CA. In 1872 William Workman remodeled the homestead to resemble an English manor house (above). In 1979, under the direction of prominent architect Ray Girvigian, all carvings and architectural detail were restored to their 1872 grandeur. (California historical landmark #874)

CUSTOM HAND-CARVED WORKS for the USA's LARGEST HOUSE TOUR

APRIL 1976 - ARCHITECTURAL ARTISANS is invited to design and carve very elaborate interior architecture for the "Dining Room" at the 12th annual PASADENA SHOWCASE HOUSE. This is one of the largest and oldest annual house tours in the USA. It caters to an affluent and educated clientele interested in interior architecture. (Photo: Dining Room, Pegfair Estate, 1211 Wellington Drive, Pasadena, CA circa 1976.)
 

EVERY FINE QUALITY, CARVED WORK is an ART FORM

NOVEMBER 1975 - Museum quality carving restoration & gilding of an antique Barbizon frame of a prized oil painting for Mr. Cornfeld's infamous IOS office in New York. (Photo shows frame after restoration by ARCHITECTURAL ARTISANS.) 

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