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DPR Art Rescue
DPR Art Rescue specializes in disaster planning and response services for artwork, sculpture, works on paper, objects, antiques, and fine furniture.
Our professional team provides immediate action to emergency situations including fire, flooding, or accidental damage, and ensures accurate inventory, safe evacuation, transportation, and storage while maintaining maximum security and climate control.
DPR offers professional art conservation and disaster response planning. The company's clients include insurance firms, museums, corporate and private collections, art dealers, and disaster response companies nationwide.
Broken Art Restoration, Inc.
Chicago's oldest established studio specializing in the professional restoration of porcelain, pottery, ceramics, wood, ivory, metal, and stone art objects. Museum-quality invisible repair; missing parts replaced.

Michelle and William Marhoefer, M.F.A., along with their personally trained staff, have restored well over 20,000 art objects since 1980 for art and antique dealers, collectors, galleries, museums, and designers nationwide.
Free estimates.
Broken Art has been seen on ABC, CBS, WGN, HGTV; and seen in Chicago Home, Chicago Journal, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, Daily Journal, Lake and Victoria Magazine. Broken Art Restoration was the featured restoration studio in Chicago Magazine, October 2009.
The Conservation Center
As the largest private art conservation laboratory in the nation, The Center has provided care for some of the country’s most prestigious museums, galleries, corporations + private collectors since 1983.

With over twenty conservators on staff, The Center has nine areas of specialty and four service departments: paintings, murals, works of art on paper, photographs, rare books, textiles, sculpture, frames and gilded objects, antique + fine furniture, clocks, custom framing, transportation + installation, 35,000 square fee of climate controlled + specialized storage capabilities, + disaster response.

The Center’s Disaster Response hotline is available 24/7 at 312-543-1462.

Staff members belong to the following institutions: American Institute for Conservation (AIC), Western Association for Art Conservation (WAAC), The Chicago Area Conservation Group (CACG), National New Deal Preservation Association (NNDPA), National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), + Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE Status), among others.
Scott K. Kellar Bookbinding + Conservation
Full range of book and paper conservation; archival enclosures. Custom designed portfolio cases for photographs, prints, matted work, etc.
Die stamping available.
Joel Oppenheimer, Inc.
Restoration and conservation. See complete Michigan Ave. listing.
Parma Conservation
Parma is a full service conservation laboratory that provides nationwide services for both private and public art collections.
Over 25 years experience.
Conservation services address cleaning and repair of damage caused by fire, water, mishandling, or the natural course of age of an artwork.
Photography and x-ray imaging available.
On-site services include conservation of murals and architectural artwork, consultation and assessments, disaster planning and disaster response.
Director is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC).
Poster Plus
Vintage poster restoration, conservation.
See complete Michigan Ave. listing.
213 W. Institute Pl., Ste. 407, Chicago, IL 60610 tel. 312-649-0064 info@chicagogallerynews.com
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