Antique Restoration & Conservation Services
Phone (07) 5535 1939
ARC Services
Antique Restoration and Conservation Services (ARC Services) is a Gold Coast based family business. We specialise in the repair and conservation of all periods of antique furniture, decorative art, gilding, silverware, metal fittings and enrichments.
We are based in Burleigh Heads, but regularly take on work from Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and NSW. Interstate inquiries are most welcome. If you send us a few good pictures (via email or text), we can normally give you an accurate quote.
We are traditional craftspeople. Calvert Regan received his training in the UK after serving a full apprenticeship. Prior to emigrating to Australia in 1989 he worked as a furniture restorer & conservator for the British National Trust and English Heritage. Calvert also taught antique furniture restoration and fine furniture making at the Shrewsbury College of Art and Technology. Calvert was joined by his sons Justin and Damian and the business is now run as a family concern. When we undertake work you can be assured that your valuable piece never leaves the safety of our workshop, and all work is conducted by us in house. No work is ever sub-contracted out to other craftspeople.
Calvert, Justin and Damian are very careful to use materials and techniques that would have been used at the time the piece was made. It is very important that repair or conservation treatments can be reversed. Should restoration be required, it is done sympathetically and in a manor which can be reversed should that be required later in the life of the piece. This ensures that the value of the artifact is not destroyed or altered. This is in line with current conservation practices.