Heaven’s Gate
Rosemary Hill
- Pugin: A Gothic Passion edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright
Yale, 310 pp, £45.00, June 1994, ISBN 0 300 06014 9
Pugin’s first professional commission, in 1827, was to design furniture at Windsor Castle. He was 15. Three years later, already drafting an autobiography, he recalled that the French master joiner at Windsor, Desmalter, had been ‘a very ignorant conceited man’. What Desmalter, head of one of the most famous Parisian furniture studios for thirty years, thought of the child designer can only be imagined. In later life Pugin repudiated the ‘scamp’ he had been at 15. He was much harder on the furniture.
You are not logged in
- If you have already registered please login here
- If you are using the site for the first time please register here
- If you would like access to all 12,000 articles subscribe here
- Institutions or university library users please login here
- Learn more about our institutional subscriptions here
Vol. 16 No. 17 · 8 September 1994 » Rosemary Hill » Heaven’s Gate
page 19 | 2137 words