In the first half of 2004, we received an inquiry from the Danish Palace & Property Agency on the basis of a recommendation from an employee at Bruun Rasmussen.
We subsequently attended a meeting at Amalienborg Palace, where we inspected the chandeliers that needed to be restored.
After a thorough review of all the chandeliers, we came up with a proposal for unpacking, and then carried out a trial packing of one of the chandeliers.
The chandelier was taken down, packed in a strong cardboard box with s-filling, after which we drove around Copenhagen before returning to Amalienborg, where the chandelier was unpacked undamaged to applause from representatives from both the National Museum and the Palaces & Estates Agency.
We thus got the job, and soon after began the dismantling.
The unpacking itself took a little over a week, with 4-5 men working around the mansion at Amalienborg.
When all the chandeliers were fully packed, we drove them in our own trucks to Værløse Air Base, where they were stored in one of the old shelters that used to house the Air Force’s F-16 fighter jets.
However, one chandelier was too big to come out of the mansion in one piece and therefore had to stay at Amalienborg Palace. For this purpose, we built a wooden box on wheels, into which the chandelier was then lowered. The box, which was so large that we had to use 22 bags of flamingo filling (or 11,000 litres), was built in modules at our export packing shop, and subsequently assembled in the mansion.
The workers at Amalienborg could then move the chandelier around as the renovation progressed.
The renovation o Frederik VIII’s Mansion
The future home of the Crown Prince Couple
In the years 2004-2010, Frederik VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg underwent a thorough renovation and refurbishment in connection with the palace being used as a residence for the Crown Prince couple and their family, as well as in the long term functioning as a regent’s palace.
Part of the renovation involved i.a. removal of all chandeliers which were then properly restored before they were hung up again in the mansion as the crowning glory.
Read more about the renovation of Frederik VIII's Palace