Tindell’s Restoration and School

Specialties

Tindell’s Restoration Schools & Studios offers you the expertise needed to repair your cracked, chipped, and broken heirlooms, antiques and collectibles. We can restore porcelain, pottery, ceramics, crystal, glass, marble, alabaster, oil paintings, frames, ivory, malachite, jade, silver, bronze, and so much more. If the object is unusual to our normal request, we have a network of international experts that should be able assist. With thousands of requests per year, ranging from personal sentimental objects to rare museum pieces, everyone can benefit from our restoration services.

One of our specialized services at Tindell’s is Fire and Flood Damage. When disaster strikes it is devastating to lose your most precious and priceless possessions. At Tindell’s Restoration we take great pride in salvaging and restoring your cherished items back to their original beauty. The devastation that comes along with one of these tragedies can be heart breaking, but we can help ease some of that pain with our expertise in restoration.

At Tindell’s Restoration studio we also offer a variety of Restoration Classes! These classes are Flexible and negotiable Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Training Programs offered at our location or yours. You can request Customized Training, Pick The Dates, and get Group Pricing rates. Our classes include Professional Student Text Books, Excellent Videos, Extra Reference Guides and continued support via Internet questions and answers service. For more

History

Established in 1987.

DiAnna Tindell opened her studio in 1987 for the restoration of glass, porcelain, and ceramic items, etc., in Nashville, Tennessee. Tindell inherited her interest in art from her grandmother, Anna Sherman, born in 1906. Tindell has trained with museums and many well-​known locally and internationally recognized artists, including the National Corning Museum of Glass for «hot and cold» glass techniques. This training, along with the experience she gained through visits to European factories including factories where Meissen, Dresden and R.S. Prussia are produced, gave Tindell the confidence to open a restoration studio with her mother, «Gi Gi» Tindell.

Meet the Business Owner

DiAnna T.

Business Owner

According to DiAnna Tindell there is no joy greater than returning an object that has been chipped, cracked or broken to its original shape and beauty. «There’s nothing to match the appreciation in the owner’s eyes when they first see it,» said Tindell.

Since she began her business, Tindell has professionally restored literally thousands of items for museums, galleries, antique malls, interior decorators, and many private collectors.

With so much to develop and restore, DiAnna is never bored. Best of all, she appreciates her hundreds of client and student ’ Thank You ’ notes with all the great referrals.

Taken in part from a 1998 article from a The News special feature section Women Entrepreneurs entitled «Tindell’s Restoration Studios».

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