{"id":2422,"date":"2019-06-18T20:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kettonglass.co.uk\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2019-06-18T20:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T20:00:46","slug":"number-is-up-for-eltham-stained-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/number-is-up-for-eltham-stained-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Number is up for Eltham stained glass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eltham has all the right numbers with new\u00a0stained glass – built to match the exisiting leaded lights in the door and use the same English muffle<\/a> glass sourced from the team at Kansa Craft<\/a><\/p>\n

The build process is here from central panel<\/p>\n

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and then the outer areas of the half moon:<\/p>\n

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The existing door is in the same style:<\/p>\n

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Just around the corner\u00a0is Eltham Palace\u00a0 and Gardens and is a unique marriage between a medieval and Tudor palace and a 1930s millionaire\u2019s mansion. From the 14th to the 16th century it was an important royal palace, where monarchs often stayed and hunted in the surrounding parks. After centuries of neglect, Eltham was leased to Stephen and Virginia Courtauld in 1933, who built an up-to-the-minute house here that incorporated the great hall. The result was a masterpiece of 20th-century design.<\/p>\n

The house was ideally suited to display the Courtaulds\u2019 extensive collection of works of art, which included contemporary pieces as well as Old Masters. It also provided ample space for entertaining their broad social circle. As well as royalty \u2013 Queen Mary visited twice \u2013 celebrity visitors included Stravinsky, Gracie Fields, Malcolm Sargent, film producers Basil Dean and Michael Balcon, band leader Lew Stone, and politicians such as Rab Butler and Leo Amery.<\/p>\n

The Courtaulds also took full advantage of new technology. There were electric fires and in most rooms synchronous clocks which were regulated by the incoming mains supply, and a loudspeaker system that could broadcast records to rooms on the ground floor. Siemens installed a private internal telephone exchange. There was a centralised vacuum cleaner in the basement. Gas was used to power underfloor and radiant ceiling heating throughout the house. Virginia Courtald\u2019s pet lemur even had its own heated quarters on the first floor.<\/p>\n

Keen horticulturalists, the Courtaulds also created a variety of garden features including a rock garden, formal rose gardens and a series of garden \u2018rooms\u2019, the latter being more typical of the Edwardian period or Arts and Crafts style.<\/p>\n

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Eltham has all the right numbers with new\u00a0stained glass – built to match the exisiting leaded lights in the door and use the same English muffle glass sourced from the team at Kansa Craft The build process is here from central panel and then the outer areas of the half moon:   The existing door […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservation","category-current_projects","category-gallery","category-new_stained_glass_art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kettonglass.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}