Poster Mountain

Welcome back!  It's been a busy few weeks here in the studio. As you can see from the pictures above Pete and Gabe are steadily working away on some great projects. As for our leading lady, "Women Love Diamonds," she's been prepped and is ready for the next phase! You may have noticed, there is a giant hole in the middle of our lady! Before I go any further in this saga, let me introduce the newest member to the Poster Mountain team *drum roll please* Ravi Wilkie! Ravi is the latest artist to join the restoration team. Ravi most recently moved to California from New York where he worked as a scenic painter, illustrator, and his own art practice. His art work can be found at www.raviwilkie.com .  Today Ravi is sketching in the body of our lady as we start trying to reconstruct what she may have looked like in her formal glory days. We have searched the internet high and low for a reference for her but there is not one to be found. So instead we are relyin...

Hi there! I'm Madalyn, Poster Mountain's summer intern. Here are some quick facts about me so we can get acquainted with one another: I'm doing my masters at Northumbria University at Newcastle UK, in Conservation of Fine Art specializing in paper.  I'm originally from San Francisco but moved to LA in 2007 to go to CalArts for my undergrad and now consider my self an Angelino (well aside for the moving to England part, but that's only temporary) I'm a painter I have a cat and his name is Stanley This summer I'll be spending my time learning as much as possible here at Poster Mountain and doing different projects such as this one. These posts will follow the progression of treatment and restoration of a poster titled "Women Love Diamonds." So lets jump right in! My first glimpse of the poster was an experience to say the least. Why you ask? Because it was literally in about a million pieces. Honestly! OK, well maybe not a million pieces ...

We have been busy! I feel like I say that a lot, but as you can see from our lack of posts we've been too busy to write. We're hoping to fix that this summer and return to more regular postings. (Perhaps putting all of the smart phones in the shop to use as some point.) In the meantime, we have a few after photos of some of our favorite projects and some photos from around the shop!  Crystal joined the Poster Mountain family this past fall as office manager. She has an art history degree from the University of Florida and recently moved from New York City. She got a new streamlined desk to help her in her job of keeping the rest of us on track! We did some sprucing this summer, so the front office got a new layer of paint, new LED lights and just this week we got a lovely (and comfortable!) couch for clients to hang out on. We also added some extra storage space to help keep everything organized, but also be able to have the cool things out on display!  ...

This Sarsparilla poster was deemed a "shred" by its owner, but he sent it to us anyway hoping that we would be able to do something with it. We love projects like this poster because it gives everyone a chance to flex their conservation and restoration muscles.We've seen and fixed posters in worse shape, but any chance to fix a piece with large areas missing and old, brittle paper is a challenge that we welcome. The poster was linen backed first to stabilize the original paper and give our restoration artists a solid foundation on which to build. The client opted to do full restoration, so we had to add paper onto the entire left side of the poster. Although we have boxes of "throw away" vintage posters that we find or people give us, but it is rare to large sections of unprinted poster paper.  So for this patch job we made do with a several large patches instead of one long one.  Seeing this, I do have to wonder what on earth is scrofu...

THANK YOU Since our first days of service in 1996 we have restored well over 100,000 posters, fine art pieces, maps, newspapers, toy boxes, album covers and more.   We have created a legacy of precision, promptness, and professionalism that cannot be equaled.   Each piece we receive tells a story, a memory of loved ones passed, a time that reminds us of our youth, a city that we cherish and wear proudly on our sleeves.   Whatever your artwork means to you, it is equally as priceless to each one of us.   We are a restoration company, but more than that, we are here to help you tell your story to the next generation.       Let’s look over the past few years of your memories brought back to life.     We would like to thank all of our clients for trusting us over the past 15 years with their memories.  We look to continue to do the incredible work we do with our all-sta...