Case Studies

Long time friend of Wrights of Lymm Gabrielle Boyle is running open workshop exhibition’s on Icons and religious works using Gold Leaf. The demonstrations will take place between 16th and 27th July. Please find all of the information relating to the events listed below.  

A large abstract Canvas painting featuring 24ct Gold Leaf. The Painting was created using expressionist strokes of black paint and glittering 24ct Gold Leaf.  

In a corner of the National Palaces Administration in Ottoman-era Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, a group of men and women work to restore a number of different objects that date back to the Ottoman empire, in their workshop they meticulously work to piece back together various different artefacts The workshop contains More than 100 different objects, from mirrors to frames...

This Luxury Marble Tiled Bathroom has been fitted with a number of different features that have been gilded with 23ct Gold leaf including the Towel rails , Mirror , Tapware , wall cabinet features  and the Shower fittings in order to produce a luxurious finish.       

Custom made Ducatti Motorcycle, which has had it’s body work gilded using 24ct Gold Leaf that has been applied by hand in order to create an attractive finish.  

Rob has over 35 years industry experience since graduating from Leeds Polytechnic in 1976.  He possesses a wealth of practical experience, having designed and installed displays for clients such as English Heritage, the RNLI and the National Trust and has created signage for Bettys Tea Shops, Taylors Tea and L’Occitane. Rob is a museum technician and art handler, a signwriter specialising...

The piano was built in 1856 by the firm S & P Erard , For Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, This elaborately decorated instrument by Erard was intended as a showpiece for the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace. The gilded case is decorated in the French early eighteenth-century style with cherub. The piano is gilded with 24ct Gold Leaf has...

A Gold Bulletin back from 1979....featuring my father Eric Stonehouse as a Gold Beater.  The Stonehouse family have been beating gold leaf since 1936, with Eric my Father being the first family member to work at his uncles firm – Smiths the Goldbeaters of Bridge Street, Manchester, both before and after the Second World War. He later worked for Cecil...

It’s been our great privilege and pleasure over the last couple of days to host our business friends and partners from Japan, Akari Hori, Masayuki Sou and Takehiko Okamoto who produce some amazing products that we now sell and are constantly looking forward to new and Innovative products in the future.   Japan is an excellence in its own right...

The Gold State Coach is an enclosed, eight horse-drawn carriage used by the Royal family since 1768.It has been used at the coronation of every monarch since George IV. It is now 250 years old, this and it weighs over 4 tonnes. The coach is 24 feet long and twelve feet high.  It is gilded using Gold Leaf and it features painted panels...