Empress Hotel

As part of the 2016 renovations of the historic Empress Hotel, Turner Restorations was commissioned to repair and refinish a few of its most impressive and iconic antiques.

Being used and displayed in the high traffic areas of the lobby and the dining room, these beautiful pieces were more than a little worse for wear. With several pieces of moulding, finials and fretwork long absent, the task of replicating and replacing them was at hand.

As well as having to do several structural repairs, extensive surface repairs were also necessary. Deep gouges, scratches, dents and dings were filled, veneer was patched or re-glued, and missing fretwork was tediously filled in and carved to match.

Before applying the final finish a variety of different products are used to ‘touch up’ the repairs. The new wood and fills are skillfully coloured and grained to seamlessly blend in with the age and patina of the beautiful rosewood.

This impressive and regal piece, with all its missing pieces replicated, and repairs complete is once again in displayed in the Hotels lower lobby.

Repairs, touch-ups and finishing complete, this elegant sideboard now sits in the famous Empress Hotels most prestigious suite.