Regency style: Quick Facts

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Model of an interior in Regency style with (foreground) a rotunda, presumably based on a design by Sir John Soane, and (background) a library, adapted from designs made in 1767 by Robert Adam for Kenwood House, London; mixed-media miniature by the workshop of Mrs. James Ward Thorne, c. 1930–40; in the Art Institute of Chicago.

Regency style; chinoiserie

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Thomas Hope

English author and furniture designer

Design for a library table by Thomas Sheraton, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia (1805)

Thomas Sheraton

English furniture designer