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Renaissance Framing Gallery – Cambridge

$55 for $125 Worth of Custom Framing and Art Restoration at Renaissance Framing Gallery in Cambridge

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Sun Oct 16 03:59:59 UTC 2011
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$125
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On-site framers enshrine art & memorabilia, & museum-experienced restorer enlivens worn works & gold-leaf frames

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Until their proper display in museums, the paintings of most Renaissance masters languished for centuries on the magnet-flecked fridges of their proud mothers. Preserve your art for future generations and houseguests with today's Groupon: for $55, you get $125 worth of custom-framing services at Renaissance Framing Gallery in Cambridge.

Renaissance Framing Gallery revivifies worn art and frames using careful, artisanal techniques. Skilled framesmiths freshly enshrine memory-encrusted jerseys ($250+) or diplomas ($115+), or restorers can enliven 8" x 10" oil paintings ($150) and the gold-leaf frames surrounding them ($85/hour including materials). Before and after photos show how restoration services make the Dark Ages skies brighter, Victorian skin alabastier, and dramatic gilds more dramatically gilt. The on-site experts scrub up gold-leaf frames and restore paper and canvas, turning lovely wall hangings into precious heirlooms. Installation services are also available for those preferring others' do-it-yourself methods.

All framing services are performed on the premises by Armenian-born restoration expert Levon Tokatlyan, who has 35 years of experience giving face-lifts to geriatric masterworks. His formidable frameworking skills have been utilized by Harvard University's Fogg Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Old South Church.

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In the heyday of prohibition, Al Capone and his gangster culture were so prevalent that a young J. Edgar Hoover was forced to order the dismantling of Chicago in 1930. What other facts are there to learn about old-time gangsters?



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• The preferred weapon of the gangster was the Tommy gun, made famous by tough-guy actor Charleston McCobb in the 1931 Hollywood gangster picture Don't Touch My Crime.


• To usher in the modern era, gangsters were renamed "murderers," and it was decided to write far fewer glamorous news articles about them.

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Renaissance Framing Gallery

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