Conservation Treatments

While we have extensive experience in a variety of aspects of the care and management of cultural, historic and artistic properties, listed below and to the right, our primary focus has always been the implementation of the highest standards of best practice conservation treatments.  Please click on the “Projects” tab above to view the many types of structures and materials we treat.

Materials

CSI Conservators have extensive experience in assessing and treating an extraordinarily broad range of materials used in historic and artistic works. Please click on the “MATERIALS” button to the left for a list of materials that CSI works with and links to associated projects.

“Make the workmanship surpass the materials.”

–Ovid

Services

CSI provides a complete range of services in the preservation of historic and artistic works. Please click on “SERVICES” button to the left for categories of work that our practice offers with links to associated projects.

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”

–Douglas Adams

We are committed to the overriding ethical criteria in the field of heritage preservation. We pride ourselves on our ability to develop sensitive and creative solutions to complex conservation problems. Each project is thoroughly reviewed, and all alternatives exhaustively explored until we are confident that we can achieve the client’s goals while maintaining the parameters of minimal intervention, fidelity to the artist’s original intensions, reversibility if feasible, and complete documentation.

Recommendations for treatment are based on the following documents:

• United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, “The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties”, latest edition.
• American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) “Code of Ethics” and “Guidelines for Practice”, latest edition.

Goals of minimal intervention, preservation of historic fabric, documentation and reversibility will be followed in the determination of treatments. The uniqueness and fragility of the object may be contributing factors in the definition of the treatment goals.