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The Michelangelo of wood carving : exhibition celebrates life and work of Grinling Gibbons, 300 years after his death
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I AM no great lover of horror movies, even of a comic variety. However, I make an exception for Simon Pegg’s brilliant Shaun Of The Dead. In this classic of the genre Shaun (Simon) blunders about with his ne’er-do-well pal Ed for the first half of the film, oblivious to the zombie apocalypse developing all around them. I now think that Boris Johnson and his hapless Health Secretary would have been pitch perfect in these leading roles. Indeed Sajid Javid who bears more than a passing resemblance to a puppet in Sylvia and Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds, is one of nature’s natural sidekicks.
Conservation in action: Cleaning Horace Walpole s library
Strawberry Hill House. Photo: Matt Chung.
TWICKENHAM
.- To the untrained eye, it might look like glorified housework - but maintaining the treasures of Strawberry Hill House, requires expert conservation. Now, for the first time ever, visitors to Horace Walpoles gothic castle in Twickenham can learn how historic books are cared for.
When Horace Walpole (1717-97) acquired Strawberry Hill in 1747 then a modest cottage it soon became apparent that he needed a library. A bibliophile, he already owned over 1000 volumes, which were crammed into his study. So, as he set about transforming his property into a gothic fantasy castle, Walpole had his friends, the architect John Chute (1701-76) and designer Richard Bentley (1708-82) assist him with realising a grand design for the ever-burgeoning collection. Indeed, such was his passion that, when he died in 1797, Walpole had amassed around 8,000 volumes of books, manuscript