This little drinks trolley came to us looking a bit sad and tired. The client’s family was going to throw it away, but he thought it could shine again and saved it from the tip. Just look at it now!
From this…
To this…
Renowned were contacted recently by a company that imports a “wood alternative decking” material called Trex.
Our fine skills and special timber jointing technology were enlisted to help build a display deck at the front of the AWS warehouse for sales evenings and demo displays.. Naturally, it had to look perfect so Renowned’s craftsmen got to go on an ‘out of the ordinary’ field trip to assist the guys at AWS with their new venture.
We recently completed a restoration job on a genuine Parker Knoll chair for Helen and when we returned it, she asked if we could repair her husband’s pride and joy – a very rare burl slab of Huon pine from Tasmania.
Looking at the detail and number of rings within this burl, we estimate this tree was about 2,500 years old. So this tree started it’s sapling life somewhere in 430 BC! A time, pre-Julian Roman calendar, an era of Sparta and Attica and regular outbreaks of the plague, etc. Amazing to see this piece of history sitting at a pride of place in a home in downtown Kenmore in 2016!
