Tristan Salazar Designs - Restoration Work

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The uniqueness of my work rests in my knowledge of stylistic history coupled with my ability as an inventor to work out practical solutions to interior design problems. I spent 4 years at university studying at the second best collection of Decorative Arts after the Victoria and Albert Museum: Temple Newsam House Museum, Leeds. So I am familiar with the history of 17th, 18th and 19th centry architecture, furniture, painting, sculpture, ceramics and prints. I am well versed in the field of hands on antique restoration and have an innate ability to see outside the box when it comes to finding restoration and design solutions.

This plaster statue maquette was about to be thrown into a skip but was exchanged for a case of beer. It was painted bronze colour at a later date. The paint was stripped off to discover it had been badly mended and patched with black polyester resin.The resin was removed and restored with soft plaster. It made £35,000.00 at auction once restored!

This plaster statue maquette was about to be thrown into a skip but was exchanged for a case of beer. It was painted bronze colour at a later date. The paint was stripped off to discover it had been badly mended and patched with black polyester resin.The resin was removed and restored with soft plaster. It made £35,000.00 at auction once restored!

Before and after restoration of a 17th Century portrait of Madonna.

Oil painting lined and backed with new canvas to straighten it and then cleaned.

Oil painting lined and backed with new canvas to straighten it and then cleaned.

Design and build of bookcases, Library and fireplace for a Cotswold barn conversion.

Restoration carried out to a Morroccan mother of pearl inlaid hexagonal table.

Restoration carried out to a Morroccan mother of pearl inlaid hexagonal table.

Gib door through library using a process I invented by taking moulds off antique books and casting the spines in resin to make the fake library section. Such casts now available from The Original Bookworks, Cirencester.

Lovely early cornice, reproduced and used in a Cotswold Manor Farm. A final wash of colour brought out the details of the rolling scroll and fruit.

Lovely early cornice, reproduced and used in a Cotswold Manor Farm. A final wash of colour brought out the details of the rolling scroll and fruit.