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The conference papers contained in this volume explore the manner in which the significance of objects relates to their collection and setting as interdependent elements of the whole context. Complex interacting or conflicting contexts - such as past, dispersed or destroyed collections and settings - affect the intentions of current decisions for treatment. Also the methods chosen for treatment of decorative surfaces of objects can conserve or change the whole context of collection and setting. Consideration is given to the dilemmas encountered in attempting to maintain a consistency of approach between the intentions guiding the treatment of a setting and objects within it, and whether it is appropriate for objects to be considered and treated in a different way from their wider context. The approaches taken with these issues are complex, nuanced and distinctly formulated.
"... lavishly illustrated and well written record of seven highly innovative and carefully thought out projects. ...these papers offer excellent study notes for conservation students and their tutors, I would recommend this publication as a valuable addition to college reading lists."
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Context and understanding in country house collections
Christopher Ridgway
The decorative surface within the working royal palace
David Wheeler
The Picture Gallery and Grand Staircase at Attingham Park: to gild or not to gild?
Sarah Kay
The conservation and reproduction of neo-classical window seats designed by Robert Adam for the Library at Kenwood House
Ann Katrin K�ster and Laura Houliston
The two make a pair: differentiated treatment of a pair of gilded stools displayed in the furniture gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Zo� Allen and Lea Wegwitz
Re-altering the glazing alterations of a Burne-Jones frame
Alastair Johnson
Working with complex collections: the Staffordshire Hoard
Deborah Cane
Making Mrs Soane�s Morning Room �permanently magical�
Jane Wilkinson