Having kept the traditional methods alive, EOP is equipped to provide seamless restoration of damaged heritage pieces including curved cornices, ornaments and other challenging pieces run in situ and worked into the original.
We offer a full service from fitting the split chestnut or oak laths in preparation for our flat lime plastering, then through to the manufacture and fitting of runs and ornament to match original or from our archive of heritage moulds.
The profiles and moulds collected over 40yrs of trading, and used to recreate Regency and Victorian cornices, have not been destroyed but archived with the Regency Town House as a definitive decorative collection. We soon hope to have online access to the collection for research and orders.
Ceiling centres
Our range of ceiling roses crafted from original Regency and Victorian pieces can be purchased by contacting us direct. These are comprised of multiple pieces enabling many individual combinations using the original methods of application as in the Victorian and Regency times.
Bespoke solutions can be crafted or replicated upon request.
Case Study: Norbury Park House
Norbury Park House suffered a huge fire that ripped through the west wing.
The historic parts of the house adjoining the fire-damaged area suffered greatly with water from the hoses flooding the Pillar Room requiring 100% lath and lime replacement & 40% cornice replacement. This included areas of Carton Pierre ornament which was introduced to England by French craftsmen of whom I believe Norbury’s ornament is an example since the Rococo master bedroom had their notes in French written behind skirting etc.
N.B. Carton Pierre is a mixture between papier-mache and composition that enjoyed a short fashion in the 18th century with examples in the Palace of Westminster and the Reading Room of the British Museum.
The next room away from the fire at ground level belongs in partnership to the National Trust, it is completely covered in oil paintings by students of the Royal Academy giving the effect of being in a gazebo in an Italian garden. The water which flooded through the Pillar Room in turn caused the timbers in the walls and cornice frame to expand pushing off the gilded lime cornice along the adjoining wall.
Re-running this lime cornice was a challenge due to the precious nature of the paintings surrounding it. Despite this, and with gilding by Cliveden Conservation, the new blends in perfectly with the old.
