7.30pm, Monday 15 January 2018, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, Chiswick, London W4 2EL Discover how Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, transformed Lord Burlington’s compact Palladian villa into an elegant, comfortable home, with Esme Whittaker, the English Heritage curator responsible for interiors at Chiswick House and Marble Hill. All welcome
7.30pm, Monday 17 November 2014, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, London W4 An illustrated talk by Carolyn & Peter Hammond, authors of Life in an Eighteenth Century Country House (the Morice letters). When the sixth Duke of Devonshire inherited Chiswick House in 1811 he commissioned an inventory of its contents. This talk uses […]
Sutton Court and Chiswick House, gardens open 10am-5pm, 12 June London Open Garden Squares weekend Between 1680 and 1700 Lord Fauconberg was creating a formal garden and park at Sutton Court. Lord Burlington bought the estate in the 1720s to add to the grounds of Chiswick House. James Wisdom, B&CLHS chairman, will show that traces […]
