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Our Services

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We offer extensive services for museums, galleries, private clients, art advisors, interior decorators, and collectors including:

• Exhibition planning.
• Installation services by skilled technicians trained to work with all types of clients and       projects: from small household installs to museum assistance and art fairs.
• Registration and collection management: including cataloging, photographing,     condition reporting and viewing room services.
• Custom Fabrication of all your art packaging needs.
• Specialty projects including large rigging and sculpture moves.
• Mount making.
• Domestic and international services including transport of exhibitions on loan.
• Security escorts both domestically and internationally.
• Export/Import services including air and ocean freight services.

Installation

CAI offers extensive installation services for museums, galleries and private clients, art advisors, interior decorators and collectors including but not limited to:

 

  • Exhibition planning

  • Installation services by skilled technicians trained to work with all types of clients and projects: from small household installs to museum assistance and art fairs

  • Condition reporting and viewing room services

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Transportation

When your collection needs to move…..

Whether it’s an entire exhibition or a single purchase to a client’s residence, we have the knowledge, experience and equipment to provide you with timely, economic and seamless transportation services. Our climate-controlled fleet ranges in size from sprinter vans to 24’ straight trucks. We can arrange for specialty equipment to meet your needs including, exclusive climate controlled cross-country shuttles, flatbed trucks and craning & rigging.
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Storage & Collection                                 Management
               


When the work isn’t on display…..
 

CAI can offer both short-term and long-term storage at our two state of the art facilities. Offering both non-climate and climate controlled storage gives our clients the flexibility their collections require. Private or custom-built storage areas can be provided upon request.

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Our three warehouses totaling 49,000 sq ft include 35000 sq ft of climate and humidity-controlled storage. Our climate-controlled storage maintains American Museum temperature and Humidity standards (68-72 degrees and 48-52%)

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CAI also offers non-climate storage for items that are not as sensitive to humidity fluctuations or where temperature change is not an issue.

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Our Registration Team can provide the highest standard of

collection management services from condition reporting,

object and inventory management and custom

viewings for clients & collectors.

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Viewing Room
               

Our viewing room provides on-site photography and/or condition reporting,

a private space for viewing a work with a

client, or inventory and cataloging projects.

 

This gallery like space offers a secure private room with white walls and gallery lighting, and can be rented by half or full days, a week or longer by special request.

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Packing & Crating

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CAI offers complete packing solutions for every need:

• Museum standard packing and crating

• Traveling and exhibit-style crating

• One-way crating and travel framing for shuttle or local delivery

• Oversized crating for large sculpture moves

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All of our crates are made with current IPPC/phytosanitary compliant materials. Our

fabrication team has over 20 years experience in crating and custom fabrication. We

provide ongoing training in the newest methods  to stay competitive in fine art transportation.

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Special Projects & Rigging

CAI specializes in high end complex rigging for all your large sculpture installation and deinstallation needs. From site visits to special fabrication and craning needs, our team is experienced and certified to handle the toughest projects. Our rigging team is also

available to travel, bringing their expertise to you, both domestically and international.

Our team also travels for Art Fairs, including ABMB and satellite fairs, special private client installations and collection management projects that require us to be onsite.

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Connect Art
International
San Francisco, CA 94124

Telephone    415 824 2422 

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