The feast before the famine
If you had the resources, Georgian Ireland must have been a very agreeable place in which to live. It was…
Divinely decorative
Italian cabinets and tables decorated with inlaid semi-precious stones known as ‘pietre dure’ were a ‘must-have’ for English milords returning…
A woman’s work
Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828) was virtually the only female sculptor working in Britain during her lifetime. Contemporary artists may have…
Pomp and severance
The Coronation Chair currently stands all spruced up, following last year’s conservation, under a crimson canopy, by the west entrance…
Master bedroom
What exactly are the ‘secrets of the royal bedchamber’? That the actual bed was seldom if ever slept in let…
