Case Studies

The Emirates Palace Hotel stretches more than one kilometre from east to west, which cost more than $3 billion to build and opened in 2005. Has recently had it’s ceiling renovated using 23ct Gold Leaf and Silver Leaf. The ceiling is approximately 2,000 square meters of ornate ceiling and is gilded with 23ct Gold Leaf and Silver Leaf. The ceiling...

Friend of Wrights of Lymm and professional gilder Scott Telford of Telfer Graphics has just completed an impressive renovation of 290 Gate Spikes at the national trust property Tatton House in Knutsford. The job was completed using 23.5ct Gold Leaf and Le Franc 3 hr gold size. The job was completed by 2 men over 4 days. The main gates...

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...