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Restoration Stories - Patina and Paint in Old London Houses (Hardcover)
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Restoration Stories - Patina and Paint in Old London Houses (Hardcover)
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A paean to the passage of time in old London domestic interiors.
What is it about old pine panelling layered with flaking paint that
enchants the eye and tugs at the heart? The soft shine of wooden
boards, worn and gappy. Sunlight shafting through an open door out
to an unevenly flagged yard where a clay pipe might turn up
alongside a Thames oyster shell or a pottery shard. Blue-and-and
white export ware; the molten lustre of mahogany or worn silver;
the curiosity of tricorn hat boxes or a fragment of Spitalfields
silk; portraits whose owners might once have lived here. Would they
have believed that these houses would stand 250 years later? Time
has imbued all these things with unforgettable patina not only in
museums, but even more in old Georgian houses still lived in and
loved, repaired, and regenerated. Like pearls, warmed to lustre by
the daily caress of a hand or foot. The majority of these
extraordinary dwellings began as ordinary terrace houses, built to
a pattern, often in pairs or small groups. Clusters exist in the
East End of London: in Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Shadwell, Mile
End. They are mostly Grade II-listed, and their owners put up with
the bone-curdling cold of winter howling through gaps, with mending
and colour-matching, patching and piecing. Not just put up with
they embrace it. And among them are some unrepentantly furnished
with 20th- and 21st-century modern, finding poetic harmony across
the centuries.
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