People find me and send their links. Got this one, a blog “with insights, comments and ramblings about the ethnic home furnishings industries, particularly Chinese antique & reproduction furniture. From the folks at antique-chinese-furniture.com”
link: http://www.acf-china.com/blog/
The company behind it: ACF China Co. (stands for Antique Chinese Furniture).
The design of the blog looks cool and gives me some ideas… It also uses WordPress. The articles are not detailed in content but there are many interesting links for people seriously interested in Chinese antiques, restoration, curios, repairing it all, etc.
So, if one is interested, just keep in touch with their blog and submit your comments.
Another interesting operation in Beijing is Van Thiel & Co. Call them, the big repair center for that kind of stuff, in Beijing. Bencham organized a visit to their facilities, I missed it unfortunately. Maybe I should go there to repair some of my damaged antiques.
I found it interesting to hear from Rudy van Thiel Jr. they had no problems to find good craftsmen to do the delicate repair work.
The company is based in the United States with an office in the Netherlands. Consolidation warehouses are in Hungary, England and France.
The antiques are said to be authentic and range in age from the late 1700’s through the mid 1900’s.
They are sourced from France, England, the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Indonesia, India and China. The operation in Beijing (roughly 5,000 sqm) is responsible for inspection, cleaning, restoration and consolidation of antiques from Asia & Europe.
For more information, visit their website: http://www.vanthielantiques.com/