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San Francisco, USA.
The Wiseman Group (TWG) is one of the most iconic interior design firms in the San Francisco Bay area, priding itself on its commitment to creating beautiful, sophisticated, and innovative spaces. It was our pleasure to conduct shipping and installation for TWG at the 2019 San Francisco Decorator Showcase. This month-long event provides a selected group of designers to showcase their styles all under one roof.
Each of our facilities around the world has a dedicated interior design division, working with designers to facilitate projects by shipping high-value furniture and art collections to residences around the world. From storage, to transport, to installation, we offer a premier white-glove service to our interior design clients.
The Showcase was this year held in one of San Francisco’s most notable homes, Le Petit Trianon, in Presidio Heights. With Gander & White’s support, TWG transformed the dining room of the mansion into a “Haute Bohemian Hideaway”. The room was inspired by the passions of Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent to travel and collect, so was designed to be a treasure trove of fascinating and beautiful objects from across the globe, still arrayed in a distinctly West Coast style.
Our operation for TWG began with collating the objects that would be going into the room at our San Francisco fine art facility. The eclectic group varied in size, weight and complexity, and we packed each item with meticulous care at the warehouse to ensure the often delicate items arrived at the location safely.
TWG produced one of the most stunning rooms of the San Francisco Decorator Showcase 2019 and we were thrilled to be a part of the project to make it happen. We value our partnership with TWG and always enjoy working with them.
First, we laid an area before a large banquette in several parts was installed. Once this was in place, we unpacked, assembled, and installed a five-section gold screen by Fromental, inspired by Gustav Klimt. Once the larger works were stationed, we proceeded to install the smaller pieces of furniture, artworks and objets d’art.
First image credit: Douglas Friedman, all others Gander & White Shipping
We successfully partnered with Art Basel in Miami Beach (ABMB), the largest contemporary art fair in the United States, leveraging our international network and expertise to manage transportation, installation, and logistical challenges.
The National Portrait Gallery came to us as a reliable partner and an Approved Fine Art Agent under the NPG Framework Agreement to carefully pack and store approximately 1,500 artworks during the 3-year, £35.5m refurbishment period.
Our work often brings us into contact with the works of some of the ‘greats’ of art history. In June 2019 we handled masterpieces by the great British painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788). The exhibition, Masters of the Golden Age
In Spring 2019, we had the pleasure of delivering the works of celebrated British painter Alfred Munnings for an exhibition at the Munnings Art Museum at Castle House, his former family home in Essex.
A young entrepreneurial collector working with The Fine Art Group’s advisory team to develop his contemporary art collection, was seeking a 2-year loan of $4 million against his collection.
We were appointed to transport and install an exhibition of the work of Christina Rossetti and related artwork by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
We were appointed to transport and install a unique 15th century monumental artwork, the Battel Hall Retable, to Leeds Castle, UK.
Kent, UK.
Leeds Castle in Kent, UK, is steeped in English history. One of the most important items to be found on the castle’s estate is a 15th-century altarpiece, the Battel Hall Retable, which we were appointed to transport and install in the castle following restoration works at the Hamilton-Kerr Institute at Cambridge University in 2017.
We have carried out numerous operations with Leeds Castle before and were chosen again to transport and install the Retable in the chapel of the Castle.
Our team of art technicians safely transported the piece to its new location, ensuring that no harm came to the fabric of the building itself during the installation. The last step was to install the piece two metres from the floor, to honour the original height at which it would have been displayed.
One of the main technical challenges of the operation was the packaging of the object and transporting it safely. The extremely delicate nature of the piece, with its original frame and thin and unstable paint layer meant that contact points in the packaging had to be kept to a minimum. We worked with conservators and curators to ensure that the travelling crates were designed to keep the rare polychromy intact.
This was a truly fascinating historic project to be involved in. The Battel Hall Retable is a vital piece of English ecclesiastical history. Created around 600 years ago, before the English Reformation, it is a large oak altarpiece painted with tempera and gold leaf, depicting a specific collection of saints. The panel, frame, paint, and gold are all completely original. Works of its kind are extremely rare, and this one almost didn’t survive, having been defaced numerous times in the ages following the Reformation.
Visitors and researchers alike can today view the restored Retable in the chapel at Leeds Castle.