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Article: Regency revival: the 19th century refurnishing of Wilton: in the early 19th century Catherine Woronzow, the Russian wife of the 11th Earl of Pembroke, refurnished Wilton House with early-18th-century furniture sold from Wanstead House, Essex. The scheme is so appropriate, writes John Martin Robinson, that until recently it was believed to have been created a century earlier.
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In the 18th century the state rooms at Wilton contained very little furniture. The Cube and Double Cube Rooms were furnished only with pier tables, stools and classical busts on marble pedestals. (1) There was not even a bed in the King's Bedroom. When George III visited in 1778, an appropriate bed had to be borrowed from William Beckford's Wiltshire seat, Fonthill Splendens, although in the event this proved unnecessary as the King brought a travelling bed with him. The rooms are now richly arranged with gilt and crimson furniture attributed to Chippendale and William Kent. Although highly appropriate and until recently assumed to have been made for the house in the 18th ...
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