Explore: Gilt Bookcases

The Great Bookcase is a large piece of painted furniture designed by the English architect and designer William Burges. William Burges designed the Great

doors and bookcases, in carved walnut, were a collaboration between Allard and Cuel. The Dining Room features pink Numidian marble and gilt bronze capitals

Empire cabinetmaking are characterized by antiquities-inspired carving, gilt-brass furniture mounts, and decorative inlays such as stamped-brass banding

in parade apartments, free-standing bookcases were no longer built into the structure of rooms. Lavish bookcases started to be made, often with gilded

the drawing room were by Weekes. They also painted the figures on the bookcases in the library. The stained glass was by Saunders and Company of Long

Tour in Italy in c1772. The built-in bookcases were designed by William Kent, there are four matching large bookcases with open pediments flanking the fireplace

insets – Yellow Drawing Room – Harewood House State Bed, 1773, carved and gilt wood, silk damask, State Bedroom – Harewood House Mirror (one of a pair)

they sat on it. The middle room was a library, with tables, chairs, and bookcases of gloomy respectability. It was without windows, and so was available

Vizagapatam ivory bureau cabinets, made circa 1786, on ebonised and parcel gilt stands, c1810, were made for Dalling near Madras and brought home to Britain

4 August 1738 intended for the King's bedroom at Château La Muette. The gilt-bronze mounts, by which André Bouthemy attributed the commode to Charles