Rotating Your Collection for the Holidays: How Vidro Art Storage Brings the Right Artworks Home
The holidays are when a home is seen most. Thanksgiving falls on November 26 this year, and the weeks that follow bring family, friends, and full dinner tables. Many collectors own more artworks than their walls can hold, and the season is a natural time to change what is on display. At Vidro Art Storage we help clients rotate their collections for the holidays: bringing favorite pieces home from art storage, and storing the pieces that should sit the season out.
For Our Clients: Bring Stored Pieces Home for the Season
If you already store with us, part of your collection is waiting in our facility at museum-grade conditions of 70 degrees Fahrenheit and 50 percent humidity, with 24/7 monitoring and restricted key-card access. Tell us which artworks you want to see this season. We pack them, deliver them, and hang them on your timeline. On the same visit, the pieces coming off your walls go back with us, so nothing sits in a hallway or a garage waiting for a decision. After the holidays, we reverse the rotation, or leave the new arrangement in place for the year.
New to Vidro: Store Part of Your Collection and Rotate the Rest
If you do not store with us yet, the holidays are a good time to start. We recommend storing the portion of a collection that is not on display, plus the pieces most at risk during a busy season: sculpture and ceramics on open pedestals, works on paper near a bar or a kitchen, and paintings above a working fireplace. The Institute of Conservation, in its guidance on hosting events in museums and historic houses, puts it plainly: “Most events will cause an increase in dust levels and potentially increase the risk of accidental damage or theft of collection.” A home full of guests carries the same risks. Collectors with larger homes use our art storage for Beverly Hills estates this way: we hold the unexposed portion of the collection and coordinate rotations on their schedule. If you only need the season covered, short-term art storage works the same way, with every piece returned and reinstalled when the guests are gone.
Every Rotation Starts With Professional Art Packing
A rotation is only as safe as the packing. Our handlers decide for each piece whether it needs soft-packing or a custom crate. Soft-packing means archival tissue or glassine against the surface, foam or bubble around the frame, then a moving blanket and corner protection, for short moves under our supervision. Fragile, heavy, or unusually shaped artworks get a custom wooden crate built to the piece. A two-person team packs each work before it leaves your home, and every artwork is photographed and condition-reported when it arrives at our facility. Pieces that stay on your walls can be rehung by our installation team on security hangers and locking cleats.
Vidro Art Storage is the best course of action for your holiday rotation
Vidro Art Storage, The Premier Art Storage, gives collectors across Los Angeles and Orange County a way to enjoy the season with the right art on the walls. We store what is not on display, pack and deliver what is coming home, and bring every piece back to museum-grade storage when the season ends. Call Vidro Art Storage at (213) 537-4266 to plan your holiday rotation or to schedule your in-home estimate. You can get a quote today.
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Related reading: Handling and Moving Art at Home: A Practical Guide for Collectors and Storing Sculpture, Ceramics, and Three-Dimensional Art: A Practical Guide for Collectors.
Sources: Institute of Conservation (Icon), Claire Fry ACR, Events in museums and historic houses: Weighing risk and reward.
