Design Card 'Juno' by Thomas Hope
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Royal School of Art Needlework
Hope, Thomas: (1769-1831) Born in Amsterdam, where his family, of Scots descent, had resided and worked as merchants and bankers for several generations Hope became a connoisseur and collector of antiques. An influential arbiter of taste he exhibited his collections and published books on architecture and furniture including: Household Furniture and Interior Decoration (1807), Costumes of the Ancients (1809), An Historical Essay on Architecture (1835), and Anastasius, or Memoirs of a Modern Greek. Hope altered an Adam's house at Duchess Street, Portland Place, London, to house his collections and like Soane's house, the building was open to the public, and played a part in popularizing Neo-Classicism (the picture-gallery was one of the earliest English interiors to be articulated with the Greek Doric Order). At Deepdene, near Dorking, Surrey, he enlarged a house with the assistance of William Atkinson in an asymmetrical Picturesque yet Classical manner, containing much Egyptian ornament, including a bed derived from published French sources. Many of Hope's designs were related to the Empire style of Percier and Fontaine. From: Hope, Thomas in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, https://www.oxfordreference.com. (Apollo (Sept. 1987), 162–77;Colvin (1995);J. Curl (2005);Hope (1804, 1835, 1962, 1971);Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004);Jane Turner (1996);D. Watkin (1968))
Hope, Thomas: (1769-1831) Born in Amsterdam, where his family, of Scots descent, had resided and worked as merchants and bankers for several generations Hope became a connoisseur and collector of antiques. An influential arbiter of taste he exhibited his collections and published books on architecture and furniture including: Household Furniture and Interior Decoration (1807), Costumes of the Ancients (1809), An Historical Essay on Architecture (1835), and Anastasius, or Memoirs of a Modern Greek. Hope altered an Adam's house at Duchess Street, Portland Place, London, to house his collections and like Soane's house, the building was open to the public, and played a part in popularizing Neo-Classicism (the picture-gallery was one of the earliest English interiors to be articulated with the Greek Doric Order). At Deepdene, near Dorking, Surrey, he enlarged a house with the assistance of William Atkinson in an asymmetrical Picturesque yet Classical manner, containing much Egyptian ornament, including a bed derived from published French sources. Many of Hope's designs were related to the Empire style of Percier and Fontaine. From: Hope, Thomas in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, https://www.oxfordreference.com. (Apollo (Sept. 1987), 162–77;Colvin (1995);J. Curl (2005);Hope (1804, 1835, 1962, 1971);Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004);Jane Turner (1996);D. Watkin (1968))
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