Art Conservation Inc. also dba Atelier Art (per their pamphlet given - same address), was utilized by the insurance company that handled the damaged room divider claim from my recent move cross-country. I found the gentleman (name withheld due to privacy issues) who came to my house and telling me in person what I wanted to hear about the costs to repair both the aesthetics and the structure of this damaged piece of art, providing an opposite review and appraisal to the insurance company - costing my nearly 2/3rds of the requested and fair reimbursement as quoted from the Artist who constructed and painted the screen himself. The nail on this 'deceitful' coffin was the Appraiser's misrepresentation of the situation, calling the structural damage to my folding room divider to be caused by 'environmental' factors, when I had repeatedly contacted the movers before, during, and sadly after the move to absolutely crate the hand-painted screen flat, as the previous seven national movers had done; Mayflower, the movers, refused to do this though they promised in both verbal and written communications that they had received and would accommodate my request. Long story short, the craters forced the screen to close in a compact crate when each fold was designed to only close to about 14 degrees. This horrible, unprofessional, and unfair Appraiser has now cost me hundreds of dollars in reimbursement, and sadly to fight this legally with the insurance company would cost me more in legal fees than what I would have been fully reimbursed.
After getting the lowball estimate, I contacted the gentleman at Art Conservation Inc directly, also copying the Insurance Adjuster, to ask for specific details of how he would proceed to repair my screen and to verify what he would do, as well as confirm the amount of time and work involved; I never heard a peep back, reinforcing that this company is truly unprofessional, uncommunicative, misleading, and lacking scruples. read more
