Strawberry Hill Interior

The Gallery was Horace Walpole’s main room for entertaining and has now been restored to the room which Walpole and his friends knew. The window heights have been returned to their original dimensions and the tall gothic dado which surrounds the room restored and, in some areas, re-created. The papier mâché ceiling has been repaired, cleaned and re-gilded. The walls are hung with a rich crimson Norwich damask (specially woven by Context Weavers) based on the discovery of original fragments at ceiling level in the Great North Bedchamber. The display of paintings set in the mirrored gothic tracery recesses opposite the windows are being recovered.

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