This business case was shared by Elizabeth Bagwell Studios and Elizabeth Bagwell, Owner of the studio, who used Airtable and Plumsail Documents to create one document from Airtable records and generate multi-page reports with images for fine art and decorative arts appraisal work.
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I am the owner of Elizabeth Bagwell Studios LLC and a personal property appraiser specializing in fine arts and decorative arts, an antique and vintage dealer, and an artist myself.
That combination of roles shapes the work I do through my business. My work brings together art, antiques, vintage items, appraisal services, and brokerage. As both an artist and an appraiser, I approach these areas from multiple perspectives and draw on experience across fine arts, decorative arts, and antique research.
In addition to creating artwork and running my studio, I prepare appraisal reports for a variety of uses, including insurance coverage, insurance claims, division of assets, and sale of property. I also run EB & Co. Vintage, an online antique and vintage shop featuring a curated selection of items for the home, and assist other personal property appraisers with appraisal research.
I use Airtable to organize nearly every aspect of my appraisal research, from written descriptions of the items being appraised to multiple images of each item.
I was looking for a way to pull information from select columns in Airtable into a Word or Google Docs document that I could continue editing. I wanted to create one document from Airtable records instead of rebuilding the report manually.
The information and images pulled from Airtable make up the body of the appraisal report, but I still have additional parts of the appraisal, such as the transmittal letter, to write and compile with the body of the report to create the final version.
I looked at other solutions, but chose Plumsail Documents for this report because I needed the ability to add pages to the generated document.
I used Plumsail for a recent appraisal report that included 100s of pages and 100s of images.
It was nice to have multiple columns from Airtable generated into one document, especially since those columns were both text-heavy and image-heavy.
That gave me a way to create image-rich documents from Airtable data and bring together the main body of the appraisal report from the research I already had, instead of rebuilding everything manually in a separate document.
Airtable base used to organize appraisal data and generate image-rich documents
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