UKIC Furniture Section visit to Tate Gallery

UKIC Furniture Section
Tate Gallery, Frames Conservation Department
Tuesday 29 September 1998

Clifford Deighton has organised this visit to the Frames
Conservation Section of the Conservation Department of the Tate
Gallery, Mill Bank,  London SW1

Provisional Programme:

9.30 to 10.00 Registration and Coffee
Please arrive well before 10.00 as it will be very difficult to
admit late-comers

10:00 to 11:00 Historical look at design etc.
11:00 to 11:30 Break
11:30 to 11:45 Vitrines.  Micro climates
11:45 to 12:15 Frames and build up construction
12:15 to 12:30 Glazing doors
12:30 to 13:00 Gallery talks on frames etc.
13:00 to 14:00 Lunch
14:00 to 16:30 Practice session including demonstrations and short
talks on various analytical options for frame decoration etc.,
cleaning,gilding, composition materials, documentation.

If the group is interested and there is time there will be  a brief
visit to the painting conservation unit.

Cost:  Pounds Sterling 6.00 excluding lunch
This event is limited to 20 places
To book send two SAE plus cheque for 6.00 made payable  to UKIC
Furniture Section to

    Lyndsay Piper
    Colin Piper Conservation
    Highfield House, The Greens
    Leafield,  Witney, Oxfordshire OX8 5NP 01993 878593
    Fax: 01993 878009
    piper.conservation [at] which__net

Dominique-Anita Rogers, BSc.
Ganapati Kumari, Pin Mill, Ipswich, IP9 1JW, UK.

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