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The Temple Room, Stowe
House, Buckinghamshire
It was an honour for us at Chroma Conservation to have been commissioned to conserve and restore
the plaster ceiling, cornice and architectural joinery (as part of the wider restoration) of the Temple
Room at Stowe House, so re-named by the school after one of the boarding houses. It was originally
known as the State Drawing Room and was created when the house was remodelled in 1774. It now
acts as an overflow of the dining room for the school.
The plaster relief ceiling, composed of 25 panels, is
restrained with its classical motifs which allowed for the
striking damask wallpaper and the best of the artwork
collection to be the main visual focus.
of dark pink in the corner beds with mid pink and pale
pink closer to the centre. Within this scheme, some
elements of the decoration were gilded with platinum leaf,
but most of the decoration was gilded with gold leaf over
the scheme with three shades of pink, this scheme dated
to about 1798. However, in recent years these mouldings
Some weeks before commencement of our work on site,
we carried out uncovering sampling that showed evidence
Above, platinum eagles
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