Rococo in Britain: shells, scrolls and asymmetry
Rococo is the lightest, most playful of the historic styles: shells, scrolls and curves that refuse to match. How it reached Britain, how to spot it, and where...
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Rococo is the lightest, most playful of the historic styles: shells, scrolls and curves that refuse to match. How it reached Britain, how to spot it, and where...
Few shapes have travelled as far as the scallop shell. A short history of a motif that has meant love, pilgrimage and glamour.
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Plaster, cast by hand in our Shrewsbury studio. The wall lights are cast in fibreglass reinforced plaster.
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