Whether you are moving or just needing to ship items, you need a packaging company that is going to meet your needs. An expert packing and shipping company knows what items can go in a box. But high-dollar, fragile, or uniquely shaped objects may need to go into a custom crate. Crating involves making a crate specifically for the desired object and then the proper padding is added for protection if needed.
One commonly shipped item that requires crating are sculptures. When shipping sculptures, consider using a custom built crate. Sculptors have the tricky issue of finding a way to get their work to buyers or to a museum or gallery for a showing. Part of being a successful artist is being able to show your work all over the world. That can be scary when you have a meticulously crafted work that needs to be sent overseas or across the country. Fortunately, there are packaging companies that have lots of experience crating sculptures for shipping.
Consider some of the pieces from this article from artsy.com about the most popular sculptors working today. As you can see from looking at the works, many of the pieces would require some very careful packaging to move from one city from the next. One work by Anthony Gormley titled Field (American)is made up of hundreds of small terracotta figures. You can only imagine the time and attention it would take to move these figures and set them up at the next location.
A Houston packaging service that can offer advice on packing items for shipping or moving is pack n send. If you have a sculpture that needs to be moved—or anything that needs packaging or crating—contact us at Pack n Send today
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