Stowe House - North Front Stowe House is a magnificent Grade I listed eighteenth century country house located in Stowe, Buckinghamshire. It is the home of...
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Oct 20th, 2010
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National Trust | Recent projects | School and Universities |
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Stowe, Buckinghamshire
Oct 20th, 2010
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Institutions | Recent projects |
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Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London
Far from being a brilliant white, paint analysis established that the surfaces in the foyer were painted in a very sophisticated manner in 1951. A deep red, a pale dull green and a dark brown were originally...
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Oct 20th, 2010
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Bridges | Exterior | Portfolio | Recent projects |
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Royal Albert Bridge, Cornwall
A previous existence as a miltary parachutist helped me on this project. The 185ft bridge had to be scaled at night, when the trains had stopped running, in order for paint samples to be taken. See the BBC clip...
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Oct 20th, 2010
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Exterior | Portfolio |
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Kenilworth Castle
The original garden at Kenilworth Castle was built by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in honour of Queen Elizabeth’s nine-day visit to the castle in July 1575. In 2009 English Heritage recreated the...
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Oct 20th, 2010
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National Trust for Scotland |
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Hill of Tarvit, Cupar, Scotland
In the early 20th century the Scotstarvit estate, south of Cupar in Fife, was bought by Frederick Bower Sharp. The Sharp family had made their fortune in Dundee, where they manufactured jute products (including...
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Oct 20th, 2010
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Palaces | Recent projects |
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Hampton Court Palace
I have worked on many projects at Hampton Court Palace over the last twenty years. The recent recreation of a Tudor garden inspired by King Henry VIII’s Privy garden was one of the most colourful. He was...
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Oct 20th, 2010
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Conservation |
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Golden Lane Housing Estate, London
The Golden Lane Housing Estate is a 1950s council housing complex in the City of London. It was built on the northern edge of the City, in an area devastated by bombing in World War II. The site had been occupied...
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Oct 20th, 2010
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Museums |
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Geffrye Museum, London
I have been advising the Geffrye Museum on paint and colour for twenty years. In a recent project I investigated the paints and the colours employed on the exterior of the fourteen almshouses that form the museum...
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Oct 20th, 2010
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National Trust for Scotland |
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Culzean Castle
Culzean is perhaps the most romantic of the neo-Gothic castles designed and built by Robert Adam. Built on the cliffs on the Ayrshire coast it has a magnificent grand oval staircase and extensive estate...
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Oct 20th, 2010
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Private Houses |
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Castletown Cox, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
Castletown Cox is considered to be one of the six most important country houses in Ireland. I was employed for many years while it was restored. Advice was given on paint type and colour on the main house...
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