The Weddings/Celebrations pages of the Sunday New York Times might be one of the last places one would expect to serve as a source of information about conservation. However, the August 26, 2012 “Vows” column writeup of the wedding of Joseph Godla, Chief Conservator of the Frick Collection and Charlotte Vignon, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts at the Frick informed countless numbers of people who may have been unaware of conservation that conservators have a passion for their work, do such things as crawl beneath pieces of furniture to examine their construction and determine authenticy, and have many, varied skills.
An unexpected source of information about conservators
