by Sarah Simpson - Heritage London Foundation Team Member | Dec 23, 2020 | Blog, Heritage, Restoration
The Elsie Perrin Williams Estate has been seeing some exciting conservation efforts in recent weeks, most notably, the fixing of the table in our library. According to our conservator, the table had been restored before with giveaways such as dowels put into the base...
by Sarah Simpson - Heritage London Foundation Team Member | Dec 13, 2020 | Blog, Heritage, Restoration
The verandah, like many fancies of the British upper echelons, entered through European exploration of India. While European (especially Portuguese) explorers had reached India long before the rise in popularity of verandahs, they became popular in Australia, the...