Douglas
Distefano

Douglas Distefano is a practicing conservator and the founder of Monument Conservation Partners, specializing in outdoor bronze sculpture, commemorative plaques, and the architectural materials that surround them in public and institutional settings. His work combines graduate-level training in historic preservation with three decades of hands-on treatment, governed by conservation ethics, materials science, and full photographic and written documentation of every intervention.

His treatments center on arresting active corrosion, preserving and reintegrating historically appropriate patinas, and selecting protective coating systems that hold up in exterior environments. Method follows the object: minimal intervention, material compatibility, and reversibility where possible, weighed against the structural, aesthetic, and interpretive demands of the site. He works alongside municipalities, universities, architects, and preservation professionals so that a monument survives both physically and as the thing it was built to say.

Outside the studio he is a cyclist, runner, and surfer, and the father of two young adult children. He lives in Rumson, New Jersey.