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Knole Revealed
Over the past decade, Knole has undertaken the biggest conservation project in the National Trust, supported by a generous grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. In order to conserve the internationally significant collections housed at the property, major work has been carried out on the fabric and environment of...Cohen, Nathalie ; Parton, Frances
conservation, landscape, London & South East, archaeology, country house, Curation & Experience, collections, palace, Knole, history, and building
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A Recently Identified Barniz Brillante Casket at Bateman’s, the Home of Rudyard Kipling
A casket held at Bateman’s, Rudyard and Caroline Kipling’s home in Sussex—now a National Trust property—was recently recognised as a barniz brillante work. Objects made of barniz brillante, a technique featuring the Indigenous American material called mopa mopa, are relatively rare and have only sparingly been studied using scientific analysis... -
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Improved Daylight Management of Historic Showrooms: A Methodology Based on Detailed Recording and Analysis
This paper describes a pioneering in situ study of the daylight characteristics of a historic house interior. A combination of lux measurements inside and outside a historic showroom and recording of sunshine hours have been used together with a log of the room blind operation to understand the daylight characteristics...Blades, Nigel ; Mardaljevic, John ; Lithgow, Katy ; Cannon-Brookes, Stephen ; O’Hagan, Lisa …
historic house, collections, illuminance, interiors, historic building, Daylight, and light sensitive