Architectural Salvage
Mark Lewis offers a salvage and restoration service, utilizing the skills of woodworkers, finishers, stonemasons and metal workers able to restore architectural antiques, furniture, furnishings and fittings in order that they can be practicably re-used or to extend the use of a buildings original design and finishes. One such project of this nature was the restoration of the vaulted stone ceilings of the cloisters in Lincolns Inn Fields, the home of London’s legal profession.
Examples of other such significant projects undertaken over these last decades by Mark and his colleagues are the interiors of a Masonic Lodge hidden in bowels of the Great Easton Hotel Liverpool St and the Wilberforce and Buxton Memorial Westminster Gardens, Westminster, both requiring extensive specialized works to bring them back to their original glory. These being vitreous enamelling and gold leaf application.
Reclaimed wood such as hard wood flooring, railway sleepers, and old oak beams are often used to enhance a building project. Doors and reclaimed antique wood panelling, staircases, exterior and interior balustrades taken from grand European buildings or stained, etched, decorative and leaded glass are examples of our extensive list of available items.
We source and provide a wide range of reclaimed antiques, cast iron radiators, fireplaces, cast iron baths, sinks, towel rails, bathroom fittings and door handles all adding an authentic touch and a classical style to the refurbishment projects Mark is invited to manage or contribute to.
Garden ornaments and antique furniture, statues & figures, birdbaths, marble & stone pillars, cast & wrought iron gates provide an authentic ambience to landscape projects. Mark sources and supplies quality reclaimed natural stone materials for building projects, for example, stone walling, paving & flooring, curb stones, rubble, cornerstones and cobblestones.