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What if your workplace could feel as Glorious and Rewarding as your favourite Art Gallery?

Choosing and purchasing artwork for public areas and offices is a complicated process. Often there are too many decision makers involved in the process of selecting art and the result can appear more as unrefined randomness to the visitor’s eye rather than an engaging collection. You may need to rethink art in public areas in order to make each new purchase a meaningful part of a dynamic and growing collection that enhances the lives of your internal and external publics.

Serious art collection for public areas is a relatively recent and growing trend and the trailblazers are to be found in the corporate realm. Companies wish to associate with a quality and style of art that reflects their vision, worldview and foresight.  Art is simply defined as visual language; your Art is your visual calling card and thus represents your identity so much so that many collections are renowned in circles wider than their employees and visitors. Art helps to sell a company, its products and services without saying a word. The best corporate collections are created with greater thought and seriousness of purpose than the decorator’s concern for something to match the curtains.

Our Mission

 Arch + Company Fine Arts has a threefold mission; we advise individual, small business, corporate and institutional collectors wishing to enrich their corporate culture and improve public relations by building purposeful collections and public exhibitions of fine art in the workplace. Other services include portrait and memorial commissions and security systems for hanging art. Secondly, we strive to promote the infinite variety of affirmative and research based Fine Art across the globe and broker its finest to collectors, investors and public institutions worldwide while simultaneously seeking out exceptional new talent from emerging art markets for our established clients. Lastly we act as private dealers and operate a confidential brokerage of twentieth century and contemporary Fine Art, dealing in both carefully selected new works by established talent and secondary market brokerage for clients throughout the Americas.

Why should I engage an Art Consultant?

For many people, buying art is a daunting task. One client tells us that he prefers to visit his dentist’s chair over walking into a gallery. An Art Consultant can save you time and money by:

• Advising on the development and articulating of a long term vision for a collection; regular guidance on adhering to this Fine Art mission statement 
• Sourcing artworks, arranging loans, finding original work and negotiating purchases
• Providing regular objective advice on value, quality, and suitability of potential purchases i.e. before you actually buy them
• Coordinating professional shipping, framing, and installation
• Aiding and guiding your collections management, hanging, lighting and security

Our Services

Arch + Company Fine Arts offers a wide range of bespoke consultancy services designed to offer support, advice, guidance and foresight to planners of all kinds - from studying the feasibility of individual purchases to large scale public installations:

• Framed multiples and antique prints to large-scale suspended sculptures
• Resources and expertise to meet the needs of the most discerning client – regardless of size, scope or budget of the art program
• Residential, hospitality and Corporate Art Collections Management

• Consultation, evaluation and advice on the Modern, Post-War and Contemporary art markets based on clients’ interests and goals

• Research and acquisition of works by mid-career to established and blue-chip artists

• Evaluation of price histories, Current Fair Market Value (CFMV) and valuations for insurance purposes

• Representation at auction, including the previewing of sales, condition reports and in-person bidding

• Comprehensive archiving of fine art collections through an industry-standard,
  database-management software system using the Rules for Archival Description (RAD).

• Professional Fine Art Handling, packing, shipping and Installation

• Acquisition/Commissioning:
  - Overseeing the purchasing, framing, shipping and storage of each artwork - Helping to develop appropriate legal contracts that address such issues as copyright, and duties and responsibilities of commissioned artists
  - Monitoring progress of commissions and maintaining communication between the artist’s studio and appropriate individuals on a project’s design and construction teams

• Installation: Overseeing the integration of all artworks in a collection into the architectural plans of a project, including any structural, lighting and electrical requirements, as well as risk management review.

• Long-term Options:
  - Ongoing re-evaluation of installation
  - Maintaining the collection database
  - Addressing any care or conservation needs
  - Annual CFMV evaluation and reporting
  - Overseeing catalogue production

• Installation and maintenance of museum-quality wireless security systems

• Recommendations for proper care and conservation of collections