Rococo in Mayfair

Client Private house
Architect Blair Associates Architects
Contractor 3interiors

A rare opportunity to reinstate seven ceilings completely from scratch in 1740 rococo to two schemes drawn by the Georgian Architect Isaac Ware. The modelling and styling were by approval of English Heritage and all are now Grade I listed. Completed summer 2012.

Sir John Soane’s Museum

Client Sir John Soane’s Museum
Architect Julian Harrap Architects
Contractor FWA/ EOP Ltd.

The Tivoli Recess, a small room off the staircase of 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, was created by Sir John Soane in 1829-32 as a tiny gallery for contemporary sculpture. It was re-modelled in the late 19th century (when it lost its domed ceiling) and finally turned into a WC in 1918. As part of the first phase of the ‘Opening up the Soane’ (OUTS) project funded by the HLF and other generous donors, EOP Ltd was commissioned to recreate the missing plasterwork based on the watercolour views made by Soane’s students during his lifetime. Sarah engineered and created all the plaster ornament to fit onto the quarto-vaulted ceiling except Apollos face which was copied from an example in the museum’s collection. The new pieces included eagles, twisted snakes, acanthus leaves, layered tapered sun rays and ribbon twists. Summer 2012.
Photo: Lewis Bush, reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum

Wotton House, Bucks

Client Private House
Contractor Direct to client

The tribune at Wotton House is a triumph of Sir John Soane’s interior architecture and the final phase of two generations of dedicated restoration. The angels are a scaled copy of those at Soane’s own home in London with the inclusion of a portrait of April Gladstone, the client’s wife, who sadly passed away during the modelling stage. Spring 2014.

Café Royal

Client Café Royal Hotel & Crown Estate
Contractor Paye Restoration

A finishing touch to the restoration of Cafe Royal on London’s Regent Street. These backstays were designed, engineered and modelled by Sarah to be sand cast in iron and lost wax brass to stabilise an extended handrail. Design by approval of the Crown Estate and English heritage. Autumn 2014.

Artillery Lane

Client Ravens Row Gallery
Architect 6A Architects
Contractor EOP Ltd

Restoration of two 1722 Spitalfields houses included the recreation of this swagwork originally in papier-mâché. Style and pattern sourced from 1970s pre fire photos and other surviving fragments. Spring 2006. Photo by kind permission of 6A architects.

Japanese fish fountain

Client Private House, Kensington Palace Gardens, London
Contractor EOP Ltd

One fish tail was missing from this fountain carved from marble with quite specific characteristics. The client required a seamless fit so rather than carve the piece in a similar marble it was built in blends of marble flours and a very thin resin to match the translucency and grains of the original material. Summer 2006. The first of 4 sculptures restored for this client.

Mimi

Client CPD project

Modelled for the joy of figurative sculpture and skill cultivation.

St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Client St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Trafalgar Square, London
Contractor Paye Restoration

Condition survey of the plasterwork and small area remodelled to this historic ceiling dating from 1724 by the Stuccatori, who were the subject of Sarah’s Masters thesis. Autumn 2014.

Institute of Civil Engineers

Client One Great George Street
Contractor Richard Rogers Conservation Ltd.

Condition survey of 8 fibrous plaster ceilings c.1912 in London’s 2nd steel framed building. Summer 2014.

Rococo in Mayfair

Client Private house
Architect Blair Associates Architects
Contractor 3interiors

A rare opportunity to reinstate 7 ceilings completely from scratch in 1740 rococo to two schemes drawn by the Georgian Architect Isaac Ware. The modelling and styling were by approval of English Heritage and all are now Grade I listed. Completed summer 2012.

Draftsmanship

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