Those who are renovating their brownstones or opening a classic shop uptown should check out the decorative painting and gilding company based in Harlem called see.PAINTING Inc. Besides plaster, painting and gilding finishes, the Sugar Hill based company specializes in hand painting & gilding Signage on glass. Gilding on glass is also known as "verre eglomise" and is standard to private brownstone entrance number signs, and this local company does it in the way it has been done for centuries. Some examples of the company's works include a Harlem brownstone entrance with gold lettering (at top), the ACE hotel entrance on 29th Street (middle photo) and signage from the Lower East Side "TOMMY's GUNS SALON" (last photo).
Goldleaf or gilding is both elegant and durable and uses paper thin sheets of gold metal as the base. These properties made it among the most popular sign materials in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More photos of the company's work (which includes other restoration services) can be seen on their Facebook site:
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For additional contact information and other details, check out the following website:
www.see-painting.com
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