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My Favorite Semi-Precious Stones for Hardstone Animals

Here are some images showing my favorite semi-precious stone animals with jeweled eyes from my collection and stories of the stones and where they come from.

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Russian Painter - Mikhail Vasilievich Nesterov

I first met Nick when we worked together on the Jewels of the Romanovs Exhibition that toured around the USA a few years ago. Pallasart did the website for the exhibition and I gave a lecture at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts on the Alexander Palace and daily life in a Russian palace. In this blog posting Nick gives us an introduction to one of the favorite painters of the last Russian Empress, Alexandra and her sister, Elizabeth....

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Bob Atchison's Guide to Bronze Patinas

Most people do not realize that bronze statues have artificial patinas applied to their surfaces. This blog article discusses the types of bronze patinas and how to recognize them.

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More Pictures - Artemis Diana and Hounds

Here are some more pictures of the new life-sized bronze of Artemis Diana and the Hounds we posted a few days ago in the blog...

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Russian Imperial Style - Part 2

A year ago we commissioned a special Savonnerie carpet to be made by one of our suppliers. There are two types of classic rugs, the Aubusson, which is a flat weave and the Savonnerie which has a sheared pile...

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Russian Imperial Style - Part 1

In 2001 Pallasart ordered a number of replicas of furniture from Russian Imperial Palaces to be made by wood carvers and gilders that worked in the palace museums of Tsarskoe Selo...

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We’ve created websites for highly successful businesses in these fields. We can offer everything from wholesale to retail with online stores that can sell a huge range of products. We understand the complexity of selling mass produced and one-of-a-kind items. We also understand the issues associated with sizes, colors and the big images you’ll need to sell your products online. Our carts are easy to use and update. You can easily manage items, inventory and shipping from the custom website we’ll build for you. Let's get started - (512) 547-7315.

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Over the years we have created websites for many of the biggest brands in wine, beverage and food sales that have millions of dollars in annual sales. We create sites that offer hundreds of brands, thousands of products and brands in online sales. our shopping carts are easy to operate and can handle any level of sales. Pallasart builds sites for caterers, food producers, websites that can support retail and wholesale sales. we understand the unique issues of shipping and cross-state line sales.

Professional Associations

We’ve built a number of sites for professional organizations like the Texas Municipal Courts Education Center and the Texas Municipal League. These websites can offer complex services to their members. We can provide your organization with online membership management tools and other business features you need to provide. We also create websites for professional conferences with tools to manage program schedules, speakers, accommodations, papers, videos and online registration.

Online Shopping

Over the years we have built hundreds of sites for online retailers. We specialize in building complex custom shopping carts tailored to your specific needs in open source PHP. We have the technical abilities to integrate your shopping cart with many third party services that use APIs - such as Teapplix and ShipStation for easy shipping and order fulfillment. We can also work with common shopping cart solutions from X-Cart, WooCommerce for WordPress, OpenCart, osCommerce, and Magento. Call us at (512) 547-7315 and let's get your new website into production.

Architects

A large number of the websites Pallasart builds are for for home builders. We also specialize in websites for architects who design those homes. We are fortunate to have built websites for two of Austin's most celebrated and successful architectural firms, Tolleson Architects and Chuck Krueger Architects. If you visit these websites you will see how important images galleries with huge pictures are essential to the success of their businesses online.

Decor and Design

Pallasart has built websites for famous interior designers like Timothy Corrigan. Recently we created a beautiful website for Aurora Chartrand, a home stager and designer based in Austin and Houston. For a number of years Pallasart operated its own luxury furnishings and antiques store in Dallas for a global clientele. in conjunction wit the store we offered a high-end online store that served customers from across the USA and around the world.

History and Art

Pallasart was originally famous for building free art and history websites with a focus on the world of Byzantium and Russia. We have more an 30 free online history and art books that are used in the classroom. In a prior life Bob Atchison was a Byzantinist and icon painter. He also painted a number of churches in California when he was younger. Bob continues to develop and expand his world-famous World of Byzantium website. He creates graphic reconstructions of Byzantine monuments and historical characters - like this one of a 12th century Byzantine prince-warrior.

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My Favorite Semi-Precious Stones for Hardstone Animals

Russian Painter - Mikhail Vasilievich Nesterov

Bob Atchison's Guide to Bronze Patinas

Most people do not realize that bronze statues have artificial patinas applied to their surfaces. This blog article discusses the types of bronze patinas and how to recognize them.

More Pictures - Artemis Diana and Hounds

Russian Imperial Style - Part 2

Russian Imperial Style - Part 1

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