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James Yorke

Home at last – a celebration of 200 years of the Travellers Club

James Yorke 29 September 2018 9:00 am

The Travellers Club was founded in 1819 to provide congenial surroundings for those who had ‘travelled outside the British Islands…

A folding screen depicting views of Versailles

The splendour and squalor surrounding the Sun King

James Yorke 5 May 2018 9:00 am

The château at Versailles remained the grandest palace in the whole of Europe from the moment that Louis XIV established…

Bellamont Forest, Co. Cavan (c.1728), often described as a perfect Palladian villa, was designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce for Thomas Coote

Bedding down with the butler in Georgian Ireland

James Yorke 21 May 2016 9:00 am

If you had the resources, Georgian Ireland must have been a very agreeable place in which to live. It was…

The Sixtus V cabinet: the supreme example of the art of pietra dura

Cabinet of curiosity: we do not even know for sure the maker of the Sixtus Cabinet at Stourhead

James Yorke 7 February 2015 9:00 am

Italian cabinets and tables decorated with inlaid semi-precious stones known as ‘pietre dure’ were a ‘must-have’ for English milords returning…

Anne Seymour Damer: the female Bernini?

James Yorke 23 August 2014 9:00 am

Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828) was virtually the only female sculptor working in Britain during her lifetime. Contemporary artists may have…

Queen Victoria

The Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone, by Warwick Rodwell - review

James Yorke 17 August 2013 9:00 am

The Coronation Chair currently stands all spruced up, following last year’s conservation, under a crimson canopy, by the west entrance…

Exhibition: What really goes on in a royal bedchamber

James Yorke 13 July 2013 9:00 am

What exactly are the ‘secrets of the royal bedchamber’? That the actual bed was seldom if ever slept in let…

Concealed treasures

James Yorke 24 November 2012 9:00 am

The Holburne Museum of Bath is a delight. Its collections were formed by Sir William Holburne (1793–1874), a naval officer…

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