Our firm can provide you with the finest in evaluation, conservation and restoration of paintings, antique furniture, antique decorative arts, and other special services for fast emergency response & disaster recovery.
Consulting:
- On-site evaluation, damage and loss survey
- Art Evaluation Services
- Appraisals and valuations
- Chemical testing
- Remediation protocol
- Reports and photography
- Legal advocacies and expert witness
Art Handling:
- Trained art and antique handlers
- Pack out
- Transport
- Inventory
- High Security Storage / Climate Controlled art Storage
Conservation / Restoration / Cleaning:
- Paintings
- Paper Based Art
- Books, Manuscripts and Documents
- Sculpture
- Textiles
- Decorative Art
- Furniture (antiques)
- Other Antiques and Fine Objects
All of our conservators have advanced graduate credentials in art and antique restoration from the leading universities of Europe and the United States.
We are the only conservation specialist firm recommended by Best’s Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys and Adjusters (2006 edition).
We are on the recommended list of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Many leading carriers retain us including Chubb, Lloyds, Nordstern, ITT Hartford, Fireman’s Fund, Winterthur (Switzerland), Alliance Francaise, Royal Insurance of Scotland, Royal Belgian Insurance, et al.
We are one of the pre-eminent conservation/restoration firms in the Southern United States, and we have the best-equipped and most modern private laboratories in the State of Florida.
As the former contract disaster recovery firm for BMS/CAT in Fort Worth, for a number of years, we have as much or more experience in fire, water, and windstorm/hurricane recovery than anyone in the United States.
FAC has performed recovery in several hundred small and large events; some of the large ones include:
- Christie’s (Auction House) – Water damage to 250 major paintings.
- Silliman Library (Yale University) – Fire and water damage ravaged their rare book collection: 15,000 volumes.
- Colonial Williamsburg Textile Collection storage area; 4,000 artifacts – Water and flood recovery.
- Trent House, Trenton, New Jersey: Major historic house collection – Water damage to 6,500 objects, paintings, furniture, works on paper, textiles, etc.