Background

The Chippendale Sofa came from the Nova Scotia Museum.  It is believed that the sofa is a genuine Chippendale.  When the sofa first came to us it was all in pieces.  What stretchers remained were badly broken.  A lot of the gorgeous carving on the arms and legs was damaged or missing.  All the joints were loose or broken.

The Process

The sofa had to be completely dismantled and then rebuilt.  We had to repair all the broken stretchers and carvings.  We also had to reproduce the missing stretchers and carvings.  Many of the joints had to be rebuilt.   

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