Have you seen Bafta-winning film An Education? Hotly-tipped and narrowly missing out at last year’s Oscars, this stylish and idiosyncratic British film is the story of a bored schoolgirl in 1960s suburban London and her fling with a man twice her age. But never mind the plot synopsis – here at Terry Waters French Polishing, what caught our eye was the starring role given to a truly beautiful cello! 
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Wooden Wonders We’d Like To Have French Polished: 12. Jenny’s cello from An Education
full listWooden Wonders We’d Like To Have French Polished: 11. Wooden Staircases From Gone With The Wind
If there’s one film that showcases colonial grandeur, it’s Gone With The Wind. Why, Miss Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) spends so much of her time sweeping up and down some beautifully imposing staircases in those impossibly large dresses, it’s a wonder she has any time at all left for plotting and conniving. Some of the staircases she sweeps down are covered by carpet; others are exposed in all their wooden glory. Either way, we’d definitely be up for bringing out the beauty of the wood beneath Scarlett’s feet.
Wooden Wonders We’d Like To Have French Polished: 9. The Black Pearl from Pirates of the Caribbean
The battered, ghostly Black Pearl is a pirate ship to strike fear into the hearts of sailors everywhere – its black sails, its merciless array of cannons and its crew of reckless, ruthless scurvy dogs make this vessel a force to be reckoned with.
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French Polishing Green Environmental Approach Reduces Carbon Footprint
It is great to see so many people jumping on the green bandwagon and making their businesses as environmentally friendly as possible. Here at Terry Waters, French polishing specialists and restorers, we consider it a big part of our remit to leave the smallest carbon footprint as possible in the work we do.
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