Historic restoration of architectural elements by Imperial 1-800-399-7585 for national trust homes and public buildings

Imperial Productions ®

Custom Solutions Design & Fabrication

of Historic Architectural Elements

Procedures

Imperial's Directive

We are a Design House, a coordinator that orchestrates a client's design concepts into reality.

Custom elements are produced as private commissions in association with Martin Richards

Design & Contracting Inc. This award winning design firm creates designs for architectural

elements in historic restorations, for unique commissions, or for complete architectural plans.

Designs are then tendered by various quality manufacturers.

As a courtesy, Imperial co-ordinates all international shipping of goods.

We accept commissions for architectural elements for interior or exterior application.

Imperial is your complete source for architectural products and innovative design commissions.

Our Specialty is to provide custom reproductions and creations of unique products

in a multitude of materials suitable for the application. From exterior building elements

to hand carved appliqués. Email us your drawings or photos for custom quotes.

Service I: Standard Design Process (approximate duplication)
Overall Position	Provide us with photos or architectural scaled drawings of your application area. This will ensure that we understand where the base is to be situated in reference to other parts of the building.
Overall Details	Provide us with photos or architectural scaled drawings of your required base We need: a) the total height b) the width of each part c) the depth of each part We need micro measurements of each part of the item

Service II: Exact Reproductions: The Design Process

CAD

Drawings

and

Sample

Pieces

a) If you are a qualified architect or designer

- supply us with CAD drawings - plan views / cross sections / elevations

- For specific details in the Column

Supply us with a separate detail drawing that shows depths,

widths and heights of the detail.

Manufacturing cannot interpret an artistic rendering as a specific detail

showing 3 dimensions.

Indicate how deep, wide and high each detail is to be.

If no drawing is available, Manufacturing will assess the detail to the

best of their ability as they are hand carved.

simple sketches, photos, or renderings are not architectural drawings

b) If you cannot supply CAD drawings

- Plan views / cross sections / elevations / specific details in 3D

must be made in order to create a quotation

- There is a charge for design service, inquire for fee schedules

Imperial's Custom Department offers the design services

c) If you can - supply us with the Broken Architectural Element

d) How many duplicates will you need ?

The Manufacturing Process - a Real Job
Broken Elements	Two broken metal building components were supplied
A Plug was fabricated from Plaster	Plaster plugs were made for the mold from the original component. Note the mid band had been replicated to the end of the shaft so that sections can be joined together. If the original part is damaged or does not exist, we can create the plug from hand carved wood or produce it from CAD and MDF model plugs.

Final Product	The final product was made from ZeamentTM and installed by others