The Pursuit of Pattern: David Roche, House Museum & Gallery
TDRF Adelaide, presents The Pursuit of Pattern, exploring the fashion and ‘taste’ for inlaid surfaces in England and Europe from the late 17th – 19th centuries
George Bullock
The David Roche Foundation Museum Complex Adelaide, Now Open
The David Roche Foundation House Museum & Gallery glittered gloriously with refracted light for its official opening in North Adelaide by former PM Paul Keating
David Roche House Museum and Gallery, Adelaide – Transition
A TRANSITION Exhibition at the David Roche Foundation House Museum allows visitors access to his great collection and to view the building of a larger gallery
David Roche Legacy – Antiques & Art Collection, Adelaide SA
When antiques and art collector Adelaide based David Roche AM died in 2013 he left his fine and decorative arts collection in trust to benefit all Australians
Thomas Hope – Recycling in a Grand Manner, Surrey to Sydney
Four panels inlaid with brass by George Bullock on a cabinet at Martyn Cook Antiques Sydney come from a pair of doors at Thomas Hope’s house Deepdene in Surrey
Lord Byron – A Rock Star Poet in an Age of Extravagance
The Regency era in England is all about romantics and revolutionaries, princes and a rock-star poet, architects & artists; an age of paradox where extremes met
Purists and Antiques
English purists are adamant the term ‘antique’ means you are talking about an item made before 1830; the date coincides with the death of George IV of England. This was the end of the so-called Georgian period (1714 – 1830) encompassing the reign of George I, II, III, the Regency…