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A selection of work meticulously restored by me. Magic happens when we bring an old piece back to life. Restoration work is a complex challenge of preserving the original character, it must not look polished and ‘new’ (unless of course that’s how we want it to look!) but using time-honed techniques, I can restore missing sections, fix or replace broken pieces and repaint worn and faded parts. Bringing things back to their former glory to be enjoyed for generations to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A selection of work meticulously restored by me. Magic happens when we bring an old piece back to life. Restoration work is a complex challenge of preserving the original character, it must not look polished and ‘new’ (unless of course that’s how we want it to look!) but using time-honed techniques, I can restore missing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ginkgoglass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ginkgoglass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ginkgoglass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ginkgoglass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ginkgoglass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ginkgoglass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"http:\/\/ginkgoglass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ginkgoglass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ginkgoglass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ginkgoglass.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}