17. Servant to the Painting: Master Gilder and Picture Framer Peter Werkhoven on a 3,000-Year-Old Craft
In this episode of The Trades Show, host Briana Ottoboni sits down with Peter Werkhoven, a master gilder and picture framer who trained for a decade at an Amsterdam workbench and now owns Aedicule, inside his fine framing studio and showroom in San Francisco. Their conversation traces a career that started by accident — Peter was in his early twenties, back from France with no plan, when someone asked him to help out at a frame shop for two weeks; he never left, bought into the business within a year, and spent ten years at a long shared table learning from a man who learned it from his…
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