Finished drawings for variant ceilings for the state dressing room (now the boudoir), 1767, unexecuted (2)

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire: designs for landscape architecture, alterations to the house, and interior design for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baronet (created Lord Scarsdale 1761), 1759-72 (149)
    - Designs for the interior decoration and furniture including the hall, saloon, drawing room, dining room, music room, library, ante room, breakfasting parlour, staircase, state bed room, and principal dressing rooms

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Finished drawings for variant ceilings for the state dressing room (now the boudoir), 1767, unexecuted (2)

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The boudoir is located on the south-west corner of the principal floor of the central block between the saloon and the state bed room, and is composed of small dressing room and ante room areas divided by a screen of columns. Adam volume 11/49 shows only a ceiling design for the rectangular ceiling of the dressing room area, and Adam volume 11/51 shows the ceiling for the dressing room and ante room areas. Neither of these ceiling designs are as executed.

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Contents of Finished drawings for variant ceilings for the state dressing room (now the boudoir), 1767, unexecuted (2)