Fly it high on the walls of London
Chiswick, Chelsea, or Catford… all London
MID CENTURY CLASSICS
1850 & 1950 styles




Helping you become a people magnet.




REVITALISING LOCAL SHOPS, AND CRAFTING LARGE SCALE RETRO ARCHITECTURAL SIGN WRITING OF ALL STYLES
Pure Gold Leaf

40 years Legacy
Authentic Quality really matters to us.
Gratitude: We commemorate London’s great lettering
We have built a reputation for over 40 years of delivering fantastic, designer lettering. We craft large or small scale sign painting and design projects, using innovative design and layout techniques to launch your sign.
Always mindful of the incredible lettering of late signmasters across this city, and in particular Richard Apps, as we work our way around town year after year Making London Beautiful.

NGS Mentor and late signmaster Richard Apps.
Cafe, Venue, Retail Sign Restoring

The Green Note venue in Camden N. London

Restaurant Sign Tasting
The Nightingale venue in Mayfair London
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Platinum leaf
Nightingale Restaurant Mayfair London
Other really nice things…

Check Seraina’s work here
She is the S in NGS see how great her work is.

Some outsider design led signs
Fancy taking a look at the Signsmiths design studio?
EAST END RESTORATION GILDING


WEST END RESTORATION GILDING

Our Gold Leaf work is what it is… the best in the world.

Wartski of London
Replacing this cracked window with one exactly the same was a gilding task that took the best of us.
Re-installation was very smooth and all wrapped up in 4 days.



The Fred Perry flagship store, Covent Garden.
We designed and installed all the gold leaf work at Henrietta Street Covent Garden. Below is our flagship gilding for the famous Chossing Keeping of Covent Garden.




WE LOVE CORNER SHOPS, HOUSES AND MUSEUM PIECES
GOLD: FIT FOR ALL… AND THE FINEST DESIGNER CONTEXTS

Interior design finishes are also part of what we do at NGS. this mirror needed rebuilding and after 3 days it still looked 200 years old but much more loved.
About Artist Seraina Baumgartner – The ‘S’ in NGS
Traditional sign writers NGS
CLEANLY PAINTED NUMERALS FOR PILLARS OR ROUGH STUCCO
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…cool Nick, is this your best price?
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CASE: Damien Hirst Retrospective NGS
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The next New Black is?? White… White gold
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