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Clive Payne provides various antique furniture restoration, repair, and conservation services in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, offering a full conservation and restoration service on all periods of furniture, specialising in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Set in the heart of the Cotswolds, Clive Payne and his small team of highly skilled craftsmen have worked with some of the country’s finest houses, museums, antique dealers, and collectors of period antiques, offering a full conservation and antique furniture restoration service. Over the years Clive has set out to achieve the very highest of standards in furniture restoration and conservation.
As an antique furniture restorer, Clive has an in-depth knowledge of antiques and can repair, refinish and conserve antique pieces of furniture. Clive started making Windsor chairs in 1986 using traditional methods and techniques and was soon being asked to restore other original chairs, especially those with missing or broken bows. He then realised that he needed to expand into furniture restoration. Clive Payne has established himself as a professional antique furniture restorer in Oxfordshire & Gloucestershire, and continues to explore new avenues of the trade, so that the furniture he restores, has the very best level of care and attention, whether it be a clean and wax, or a full overhaul.
Member of the British Antique Furniture Restorers Association (BAFRA)
The British Antique Furniture Restorers’ Association (BAFRA) is a nationwide organisation of skilled people engaged in furniture conservation, furniture repair and furniture restoration. Every BAFRA member is an expert in their field and is actively involved in Continual Professional Development to keep abreast of advances in knowledge, skills and technical developments.
Over the years Clive has developed the highest of standards in antique furniture restoration in Oxfordshire, antique furniture restoration in Gloucestershire, antique furniture repair and antique furniture conservation, joining the British Antique Furniture Restorers Association (BAFRA) in 1997 and now specialises in conserving and restoring oak and country furniture from the 15th to 18th centuries, together with all furniture from the early 18th to 19th centuries. Clive conserves and restores fine pieces of period furniture and works to commission to create bespoke furniture. Whether you need an extra chair to complete a set or an oversize dining table Clive brings years of experience to create the perfect item.
Antique Furniture Restoration services that are offered include conservation work, restoration of period furniture, replacement period looking glass, lock and key restoration, traditional upholstery and many other services related to period antique furniture all carried out to the highest standards. We use only the finest materials.
With traditional hand finishing of antique furniture, Clive is able to repair and revive original surfaces or sensitively refinish them. Watermarks, scratches and other surface damage can be removed to restore the original detailing.
The painstaking and delicate work of marquetry and inlay restoration demands that each piece is individually cut by hand. Colouring of individual pieces to blend with the original using traditional techniques such as sandshading.
Veneer has been used in the production of furniture as long ago as 3000 BC, but did not readily appear in England until around the middle of the sixteenth century. We source as much reclaimed veneer as possible to conserve items of furniture that are missing areas of veneer lost over time.
Items of furniture sometimes have missing or damaged sections of wood carvings. When restoring wood carving, we carefully take a tracing of the missing section together with its surrounding area, this is then infilled by copying another section on the item of furniture or following the design.
All aspects of upholstery restoration can be carried out by our specialist upholsterer, we are able to restore historical upholstered furniture from the base frame up to the needleworks so often used in the Eighteenth Century.
At Clive Payne we are able to offer high-quality rush and cane seating restoration and repair with our antique furniture restoration service. Rush and cane restoration is a skill that is still done by hand by experts.
At Clive Payne, the finest hand-coloured leather hide and skivers are used, enhanced by delicate gold leaf, using traditional tools and patterns.
You might find that metal fittings, such as handles and castors, are missing from a piece of antique furniture. If another remains, then identical copies known as replica castings can be made.
With our antique lock repair and restoration service, we overhaul and repair old locking mechanisms to working order and hand cut replacement iron keys. Keys are made to traditional patterns including the kidney bow and a variety of decorative brass bows.
Clive Payne uses traditional techniques to make fine pieces of bespoke furniture using only the very best materials and employing highly skilled craftsmen and craftswomen who continue using traditional hand skills.
To discuss any aspect of an item of furniture that you might wish to conserve or restore, or to discuss antique furniture restoration in Oxfordshire or antique furniture restoration in Gloucestershire, please do not hesitate to contact me. All antique furniture restoration and conservation work is done entirely by hand using traditional techniques.
Call 01608 658856 or click the button below to make an enquiry.