List of figuresList of contributorsList of abbreviationsForewordGlenn AdamsonAcknowledgments Introduction:
Enriching architecture: craft
and its conservation in Anglo-Irish architectural production, 1660–1760Christine Casey and Melanie Hayes

Part 1: Loss and retrieval1 'Onslow Palace': new evidence
of eighteenth-century craft technique at Clandon ParkSophie Chessum2 Piercing the surface:
virtuoso wooden staircases from Cassiobury Park and Eyrecourt CastleMechthild
Baumeister and Andrew Tierney3 Fragments of
eighteenth-century craftsmanship: the Pearson collectionPeter Pearson4 Experiments with historic
light in Kensington Palace’s early eighteenth-century interiorsLee Prosser5 Retrieving craft practice on
the early eighteenth-century building siteMelanie Hayes6 Conserving craft in eighteenth-century
buildings: the role of the conservation architect Tony Barton

Part 2: Design and making7  The geometry of rustication:
an eighteenth-century case studyEdward McParland 8 The rough and the smooth:
stone use in Dublin 1720–60Patrick Wyse Jackson and Louise Caulfield9 Drawing out a surface in lime
and hairJenny Saunt10 ‘Agreeable to live in’: the
wainscoted interior in eighteenth-century Britain and IrelandChristine Casey11 A glorious ascent: staircase
design, construction and craft in the circle of Richard Castle Andrew Tierney

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