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Rob Oldfield Designs – York Open Studios
- by Chris
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....
The Queen’s Piano made with 24ct Gold Leaf
- by Chris
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...
A Gold Bulletin back from 1979....featuring my father Eric Stonehouse as a Gold Beater
- by Chris
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...
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
- by Chris
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...
