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Article: Chippendale at Harewood House.(Thomas Chippendale)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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It can be argued that designing the furniture and furnishings for Harewood House, the seat of the earls of Harewood near Leeds, York-shire, was one of the most important commissions undertaken by Thomas Chippendale. In its present form the house has its origins in the mid-eighteenth century, when Edwin Lascelles (1712-1795), later the first earl of Harewood, inherited it and had it rebuilt on a grand scale to a neoclassical design overseen by Robert Adam (1728-1792).
Chippendale worked on the interiors at Harewood for ten years, and there is scarcely a room without an object by him. He not only made the furniture and looking glasses, but he also supplied ...
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