The piano was built in 1856 by the firm S & P Erard , For Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, This elaborately decorated instrument by Erard was intended as a showpiece for the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace. The gilded case is decorated in the French early eighteenth-century style with cherub. The piano is gilded with 24ct Gold Leaf has been painted by the miniature painter François Théodore Rochard.

 

A Gold Bulletin back from 1979….featuring my father Eric Stonehouse as a Gold Beater.  The Stonehouse family have been beating gold leaf since 1936, with Eric my Father being the first family member to work at his uncles firm – Smiths the Goldbeaters of Bridge Street, Manchester, both before and after the Second World War. He later worked for Cecil Whileys in Livingston, Scotland, as their Works Manager before returning to Cheshire to form the company C.F.Stonehouse & Sons.

 

It’s been our great privilege and pleasure over the last couple of days to host our business friends and partners from Japan, Akari Hori, Masayuki Sou and Takehiko Okamoto who produce some amazing products that we now sell and are constantly looking forward to new and Innovative products in the future.

 

Japan is an excellence in its own right in Gold Leaf and Gold Leaf manufacturing and its also been our great pleasure in the last 12 months to have visited the Horikin Business of Hori Metal Leaf Powder co Ltd

 

We thank them very much and look forward to seeing them again in Japan in the next 12 months

arigato gozaimasu

 

 

 

The Gold State Coach is an enclosed, eight horse-drawn carriage used by the Royal family since 1768.It has been used at the coronation of every monarch since George IV. It is now 250 years old, this and it weighs over 4 tonnes. The coach is 24 feet long and twelve feet high. 

It is gilded using Gold Leaf and it features painted panels by Giovanni Ciprianni and rich gilded sculpture includes three cherubs on the roof, they hold the crown and regalia and represent England, Ireland and Scotland and four tritons, one at each corner, representing Britain’s imperial power.

It was built in the Great Queen Street workshops of Samuel Butler in 1762 .Samuel Butler was Master of The Worshipful Company of Coach Makers in 1768, who was paid the sum of £1,673

Sculptor Joseph Wilton, third keeper of the Royal Academy, was paid the most, £2,500 The gilder was paid £933.

 

Wrights of Lymm Ltd are thrilled to announce our newest member of staff Donna Gray.

She has worked for majority of her career in Sales and Customers Services with Avios which is part of British Airways and has previously worked in the Banking industry.

Donna has a wealth of experience with customers relations and Accounts Management

We welcome Donna and look forward to working with her in our team.

Pedroni Cycles is celebrating 20 years of bike frame manufacturing, by producing 20 special edition Lupo Carbon Gara enduro bikes , The carbon fibre frame of the Bikes has been gilded with 24ct Gold Leaf. Each small piece of 24ct Gold Leaf has been placed onto the Bikes by hand in order to make sure that each of the bikes is unique. Each of the bikes is available for a price of $7,500

 

   

Professional Signwriter and Long-standing friend of Wrights of Lymm Stefan Newington has perfectly replicated this painting 100 years after the original was created using the very same traditional signwriting methods and techniques, proving that the art form of traditional signwriting is still going strong in 2019. The sign was painted using both One Shot and Wright-it signwriting enamels.

 

 

Dyson have launched The Dyson Supersonic hair dryer that has been created using 23.75ct Gold Leaf. The Dyson Supersonic features a ring of Gold Leaf. The Gold Leaf has been applied to the hair dryer by hand using traditional gilding techniques. In order to make sure that the Gold Leaf retains its lustre it has not been lacquered. The Dyson Supersonic is a limited addition and has a price of £399.99. 23.75ct that has been used to create this hair dryer can be found on our website.

 

https://www.stonehouses.co.uk/23-75ct-regular-gold-leaf-loose.html

 

Modern Frame gilded using Wrights of Lymm’s 23.5ct Gold Leaf , which is available on our website on the following page.

 

https://www.stonehouses.co.uk/gold-imitation-leaf/gold-leaf/gold-leaf-loose-59/23-5ct-loose.html