Lyons Conservation - from traditional skills to modern conservation

BAFRA accreditation

At Lyons Conservation, we specialise in the conservation and restoration of furniture and related objects

Traditional restoration blended with modern conservation techniques

Revitalize your furniture’s wood surfaces with professional refinishing and polishing for a fresh, smooth finish.

individual sideboard made of solid oak and MDF, fixed to the wall.

Wood Refinishing and Polishing

Personalized assessments and conservation plans tailored to meet the unique needs of your furniture collection.

Custom Conservation Consultations

Expert restoration of antique furniture to preserve historical value and beauty using traditional techniques.

Antique Furniture Restoration

Authentic traditional upholstery using traditional materials and techniques to maintain the integrity of antique furniture

Traditional Upholstery

Traditional restoration including replacing missing elements, structural repairs, gilding, cane and rush seating and more.

Restoration

Conservation of furniture or wooden objects including condition reporting, analysis and a range of conservation treatments.

Conservation

Our services

A pair of regency period faux bamboo, painted, rush seated chairs.

A bird pediment conserved following damage. West Wycombe Church.

An early c18th marquetry cabinet on stand.

Gallery

Chapultepec Castle is located on top of Chapultepec Hill. The name Chapultepec stems from the Nahuatl word chapoltepēc which means “at the grasshopper’s hill”. The castle has such unparalleled views and terraces that historian James F. Elton wrote that they can’t “be surpassed in beauty in any part of the world”

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. "An early Virginian colonist's parlour. Oak "drawinge" table, in the possession of the Pickering family, Salem, U. S. A., from 1636. Oak bible box, Connecticut Historical Society, U.S.A. Elder Brewster's chair, Pilgrims' Hall, Plymouth, Mass., U.S.A." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1910 - 1911. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-6d7f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

This was sitting on the front boardwalk of an abandoned building in the super tiny town of Fort Klamath, Oregon. 

Old school house desks in the summer sun through the window.

An old buffet, now filled new life, alcohol and hair products in the greatest barbershop in Riga - Witchcraft barbershop

Staining wood with white spray gun,  application of flame retardant ensuring fire protection, airless spraying device, industrial concept

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Painted commode and chairs. Property of his grace the Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle. Late eighteenth century." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1910 - 1911. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-6da4-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Phil Lyons is an accredited member of BAFRA. For more information on what this means please click <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.bafra.org.uk">here</a>