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The rebirth of an English country house : St Giles House
The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, 39-year-old Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, invites the reader into the house that his family has called home since the fifteenth century. In recent years, his award-winning restoration has brought the house back to life, transforming exquisite spaces that honour the past while being suited to twenty-first-century living. English country-house splendour, through the hands of some of the world's top artisans and craftspeople, returns to the house in the form of re-created wallpapers, customized paints, revived furniture from the Georgian and Victorian periods, reworked antique Brussels tapestries, restored plasterwork and textiles, and a complete overhaul of the landscape, with its sunken garden, woodlands, avenue of beeches, lake, and shell-encrusted grotto. With stories of noteworthy architecture, beautiful interiors, and centuries of a single family's involvement in British and world history, this book will appeal to devotees of country living, the aristocratic life, historic houses, and English interior design.
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THE ELUSIVE MR MOREL: A PORTRAIT OF A REGENCY ARBITER OF TASTE
A portrait on ivory of a \"Mr. Morrel\" by French émigré miniaturist François Hüet-Villiers is discussed. Information about the portrait came from an early 20th century label on the back of the frame. The firm of Morel and Hughes is synonymous with the luxurious and sophisticated furnishing schemes of the Regency era. This is evidently the only known likeness of the great decorator. The identification of the miniature of a portrait of the man responsible for the Prince Regents profuse furnishings at Brighton Pavilion, Carlton House, and Windsor Castle is significant.
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Peter Thornton
Obituary of Peter Kai Thornton, a controversial museum curator whose radical overhaul of historic interiors revived a lost world of colour and style. He died on 8 February 2007, aged 81. (Author abstract - amended)
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