Armed with a Bachelors in Fine Arts and a Masters in Conservation of Art, M. Alam has 40+ years of experience working on masterpieces in paintings, sculpture pieces, porcelains, glass, and various other objects of art. In the past we have worked for several museums, notable figures, large corporations, private collectors, art and antique galleries, and auction houses. We also have associations with Venetian and Murano glass artisans from Italy.
We strive to offer the best service in the industry and over the past four decades we have formed many lifelong relationships with our clientele. Our best qualification is the work itself and you truly must see it to believe it.
Testimonials
Our clients have included business people, congressmen, actors, Fortune 500 CEOs, a certain former VP of the United States, and genuine lovers of art. Hear what some of them have to say:
Mr. Alam can work magic! I gave him an Italian alabaster statue that had several broken pieces, and he made it come back to life. My wife and I are so pleased!!!
M. Alam took the 128 year old portrait of my grandmother and restored it beautifully! She will look great forever and is now protected from water damage. We could not be more thrilled! Definitely worth the $$$ and the wait – she’s home again more beautiful than I can ever remember.
I have had the pleasure of working with Alam on restoration of some very, very special family antiques. His skill and workmanship are amazing. He restored a cut glass bowl that had shattered into many small pieces with such precision that to this day I would not even see or know that it had been damaged. Amazing work! I also had a delicate and small decorative egg that was shattered and seems completely a lost cause. This too he was able to restore into perfect condition, again just amazing work. I would turn to know one other craftsman other than Alam for careful and thoughtful management restorative work.
Dear Mr. Alam:
I cannot begin to tell you how grateful we are for the amazing artistry youused to repair the large oil painting that is so precious to my family.
Just after World War II my father, a US Military Officer fluent in multiple languages, was assigned responsibility for directing normalization efforts in the tiny ancient Austrian Town of Steyr, Austria. My mother and brother joined him there, and in fact I was born while my family was living there.
My parents were extraordinary people, very humble and very kind, and they both used all of their connections and influence to make life more bearable for the citizens of this lovely little town. They were much beloved by the population, and when they were returning to the United States, the Mayor of Austria took the painting of the city down from his wall and made a gift of it to my father, so that he would always remember his friends there.
Years later my brother traveled back to visit the city, and took a photo that captures the exact scene of the painting. And years later still I traveled back and I felt so at home since I grew up looking at that landscape in the painting!
On Friday night, July 1, 2012 a massive 60 foot Oak tree – probably about 50 years old – had “uprooted” and gradually, perhaps gracefully, as its roots came up out of the ground, it lowered itself onto my deck and then the side of the house, bashing the roof in, breaking multiple bearing rafters along the whole house, knocking the chimney down, and separating the side wall from the rest of the house.
Rain was coming down in buckets, and filled the roofless rooms, and within minutes the rain began to leak through the floor boards and the light fixtures into the carpeted, finished basement below. The heaviest flow dripped in the library, the reading nook, and our storage area. Walking down there I found water in the store room almost up to my ankles, and the carpet squished under my feet. When the firemen arrived, all I could think aboutwas the very large oil painting of the city of Steyr, Austria, that had been hanging over our mantle. I couldn’t imagine not having it in our family, but I knew from what I could see and where it was hanging that it had to be ruined.
A fireman took me downstairs to turn off the electrical systems, and when we came back up another fireman led me down the hall toward the dry bedrooms, and there was the painting. I will never know how he got it out – he must have taken extraordinary heroic measures to do so – and it is a kindness I will never forget. Priceless. Irreplaceable. But of course the painting was badly damaged. Paint was chipped, the frame was badly chipped and broken, but the worst discovery was that the painting was severely ripped in several places. I had very little hope that it could be repaired, but when Ed Burnell from Paul Davis arrived, he said “I know just who can fix that for you!” And he did!I know you worked months to restore the painting, carefully reinforcing it, cleaning it, repatching it.When you brought it to me I was astonished. It was not only “as good as new” it was BETTER than new — in better condition that it was before the storm.
I can never express to you how much this means to me and to my family. You are not a technician — you are an artist of the first order, and we are in your debt!
Thank you so much!
-Elissa Matulis Myers, CAE
