What We Do
Art Packing and Crating
Cooke’s Crating is a fine art handler, fine art transporter, and fine art storage company.
Family-owned since 1975.
Services
I just wanted to send a personal thank you. The crate arrived in Denmark the other week safe and sound and was beautifully constructed and packed. The gallerist sent me an email about how impressed he was with the quality of the entire packaging and meticulous arrangement of the paintings. A huge thank you for accommodating us on the short notice and being easy to work with and professional.
John Doe
Art Packing and Crating Services
Cooke’s Crating has been providing art packing & crating services for over 4 decades. We feature two fully equipped crating shops and a climatized clean room for packing. We can provide one-way crates, or high-quality museum travel crates, for art ranging from paintings to large- scale sculptures. We have packed and crated some of the world’s most valuable artwork, including paintings that established auction sale records. Our safety record is exemplary – without an insurance claim in over 15 years. This is testimony to our skillful packing methods and high-quality crating.
Some examples from hundreds of high value or fragile art Cookes Crating has packed and crated:
- Rembrandt’s “Titus” Portrait of his son.
- The Maltese Falcon and the Casablanca Piano from Humphry Bogart movies.
- Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers from “Wizard of Oz” shipped to the Smithsonian.
- A full size “Bat Mobile”.
- The Getty Museum’s Greek sculpture “Aphrodite” & Van Gogh’s “Irises”.
- Jackson Pollock painting establishing a record auction price.
- Avid Hockney painting establishing a record sales price for a living artist.
- Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, “Lady in Gold” (Recent auction price $130 Million).
- The DeLorean automobile from “Back to the Future”.
- Robert Rauschenberg’s “Rodeo Palace (Spread).
