furniture restoration - Artabelle Furniture

Regency Rosewood Folding Card Table, C.1820

This beautiful, folding card table in rosewood and mahogany dates from around 1820. The surfaces and edges are expertly covered in intricate marquetry work in

24 March, 2023 No Comments

French Baroque doors restoration

We don’t know their history, or their journey, but we are 99% sure that this pair of oak doors are French. The timber had been

5 March, 2023 No Comments

1960s Ercol rocking chair, model 470, gold label – £400 ONO

Professionally refinished and polished with original cushions and gold label mark on its underside. The seat is made from beautifully figured elm with a classic

28 January, 2023 No Comments

Jacobean Revival Oak Table

This heavy 1930s oak table was structurally fine, but the veneer on the top was worn through completely. On removing it, we found that the

11 December, 2022 No Comments

1940s Bauer desk

This unusual desk came all the way from Vienna and, having spent a long time in a garage, it finally arrived in our workshop in

3 December, 2022 No Comments

19th Century Writing Slope

This little writing box had been stored away for a long time, unused, and suffering from various issues that needed resolving: the existing brass was

28 October, 2022 No Comments

Edwardian Spring Rocker

This antique rocking chair came to us in a sorry state, with parts missing, some joints broken, and its timber in dire need of cleaning

14 October, 2022 No Comments

Ercol Refectory Dining Table

This elegant Ercol table was in good condition structurally, but needed refinishing. The customer wanted the dark finish to be removed from the top so

5 October, 2022 No Comments

1930s Round Art Deco Cabinet

This gorgeous and unusual cabinet made of walnut veneer needed quite a lot of work done to bring it back to its former glory. The

19 September, 2022 No Comments

Camphor Chinoiserie Low Table with Stools

A customer brought us this lovely low table with 4 stools which was damaged and held together with tape. We needed to fix the damaged

21 August, 2022 No Comments

1717 Oak chest restoration

This is the oldest piece we ever worked on: An oak, ‘joined chest’ made by someone with the initials CB in 1717. Some of the

13 August, 2022 No Comments

Armchair leg repair

This armchair was brought to us due to one of its castors having fallen off: the timber broke just inside the castor and it was

2 June, 2022 No Comments

Refectory dining table

A client approached us with an unusual and exciting challenge. He had a table made from timber salvaged from an eighteenth century American warship called

21 May, 2022 No Comments

Church pew shortening

This massive church pew in solid oak was 2.65 meters long, and the customer wanted it shortened to 1.93 meters. The aim of this exercise

29 April, 2022 No Comments

Victorian Pine Chest

This pine chest has been in the customer’s family for as long as she remembered. It used to be in her bedroom as a child,

15 April, 2022 No Comments

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