White-Glove Installation Services

Arredo protects, installs, relocates, documents, and maintains high-value furniture, art, and architectural systems. Our practice is built around five services. Each one is available independently. Most clients draw on more than one over the life of a property. For local projects in the Twin Cities, see our furniture installation services in Minneapolis.

01 — White-Glove Installation

The foundation of the practice. We install furniture, art, fixtures, and architectural systems to exacting standards of level, alignment, and hardware calibration.

Precision systems are not forgiving. Incorrect tools, incorrect fasteners, or metric-to-imperial conversion errors introduce misalignment that cannot be corrected at the finish stage.

We work across two contexts. New acquisitions: a significant piece arrives and needs to be installed correctly from the start. Post-transition re-installation: after a relocation, Arredo performs the full installation at the destination, including assembly, hardware calibration, art hanging, leveling, and final placement.

We have deep factory training in the systems we install. We know how they are built, how they are intended to be assembled, and how to resolve the tolerances and field conditions that arise between design and delivery. That knowledge is not improvised on site. It is brought to site.

The full account of the material knowledge behind this service is documented on the Materials Knowledge page.

New acquisitions:

• Furniture, seating, case goods, and storage systems
• Art, mirrors, and suspended lighting
• Architectural systems: doors, partitions, wall panels, acoustic and decorative surfaces
• Outdoor furniture, shade structures, and sculptural installations

Post-relocation reinstallation:

• Full installation at the destination following delivery by the client’s mover
• Assembly, hardware calibration, leveling, art hanging, and final placement
• Coordination with curators, registrars, conservators, and designers where required

02 — Corporate Relocation and Asset Transition

Every time a high-value interior changes location, the same concentrated risks appear: wrong packaging, wrong sequence, wrong environmental conditions, wrong personnel. What took years to specify, source, and install does not always survive a poorly planned transition. The damage is rarely dramatic. It is usually a decision made by someone who did not know enough.

Arredo manages the planning, condition documentation, deinstallation, and mover advisement before transport, and performs the full installation at the destination after the client’s mover delivers. Transport is always performed by the client’s selected mover. We advise that mover on material-specific handling requirements, packaging risks, and sequencing so every piece arrives in the condition it left.

We work in this capacity for art galleries managing exhibition transitions and collection moves, corporate offices relocating or refreshing high-value workplace interiors, hospitality operators transitioning assets between properties, cultural institutions managing lending agreements and installation support, and private clients and family offices moving between residences.

• Pre-move condition documentation for every piece
• Deinstallation and protection for transport
• Material-specific handling guidance for the client’s selected mover
• Review of packing, sequencing, and environmental risks before transport
• Full installation at the destination: assembly, hardware calibration, art hanging, leveling, and final placement
• Post-installation condition verification
• Full written record of the transition

03 — Lifecycle Care and Maintenance

An installation is not finished on the day it is complete. Furniture, art, and architectural systems require ongoing attention to perform at the level they were built to deliver.

Most long-term damage does not begin with a dramatic event. It begins with drift: hardware that falls out of calibration, finishes cleaned with the wrong product, and minor issues left uncorrected until they become repairs.

We provide scheduled maintenance programs, hardware recalibration, condition assessments, and preventive care for high-value residential and commercial environments. This includes approved cleaning methods by material type, warranty tracking, vendor contacts for specialist repairs, and structured maintenance schedules that protect asset performance year over year.

Clients who engage us for lifecycle care do not discover problems. They prevent them.

• Scheduled maintenance visits
• Hardware adjustments and recalibration
• Material-specific cleaning and protection protocols
• Condition assessments for existing collections and systems
• Preventive care programs for high-value or vulnerable pieces
• Coordination with specialist conservators and restorers when required
• Warranty tracking and service contact management

04 — Documentation

Documentation is built into every Arredo engagement. It is not an add-on. It is part of what we deliver.

Without a record, condition disputes become guesswork, maintenance becomes fragmented, and a collection becomes harder to manage with every move, placement, and repair.

Every project generates a condition record before work begins and a completion record when it ends. High-value or complex engagements include photographic documentation of placement, assembly sequence records for complex systems, maintenance logs, and client-ready handover packages.

For clients managing significant collections or multi-property portfolios, documentation is what makes the collection manageable over time. We build that record from the first engagement.

• Pre-installation condition reports
• Photographic placement and assembly documentation
• Completion records and handover packages
• Ongoing maintenance logs
• Collection inventory support
• Documentation formatted for client files, insurance, or estate records

05 — Project Coordination

Luxury interior projects involve multiple trades. The quality of the final result depends on how well those trades are coordinated. Furniture that arrives before the floor is sealed is damaged furniture. Art hung before lighting is calibrated is art in the wrong light. A motorized system blocked by a sofa placed without reference to its travel path fails within months.

We manage the interfaces. We coordinate with architects, designers, general contractors, AV integrators, IT teams, and specialty trades to ensure that our scope integrates cleanly with theirs, that sequencing decisions are made correctly, and that the client is not left resolving conflicts between trades after the fact.

Most installation failures attributed to the project are actually interface failures between trades. They happen in the gaps.

For clients without a dedicated project manager on site, this service provides the oversight that prevents the most common and most costly installation failures.

In occupied environments, coordination is not theoretical. It happens in real time, around people, operations, and constraints that cannot be paused.

• Coordination with all relevant trades throughout the installation phase
• Sequencing planning to protect finishes and avoid rework
• Communication of placement changes to AV, IT, and mechanical trades before they matter
• Single point of contact for installation-phase decisions
• Documentation of decisions and field resolutions