THOMAS HOPE

Thomas Hope

Thomas Hope

Thomas Hope, born in the Netherlands, moved with his Scottish family bank in London. He was extremely wealthy outsider in society London that he has consistently criticized and tried to enter. Exclusion and independence allowed him to preach through the publication of books and practice carefully reconstructed the main house (McPherson, 2010). In them he created a total environment, which covers the dress for his wife, furniture, interior design, gardens and collections of decorative arts, Greek vases, paintings and sculpture.

Hope was not an architect, and he did not build from scratch, but in his famous residence city in the Duchess Street in London and later a country house in Surrey, Deepdene, he conceived an architectural additions and radically renovated interior with the help of two architects and the legions of craftsmen (Novelli, 1984). Upon completion, especially in the Duchess Street, he threw open the house as a model of cosmopolitan and intellectualized way of life. Effects contrasts with the practice of the island of British society, he desperately wanted to join, and whose aesthetic views it affects.

In his youth, the Grand Tour, Thomas Hope lasted 10 years during the last decade, 18 th century. In Italy, he commissioned paintings and sculptures by Canova, Flaxman and Thorvaldsen. He decided after Rome, not only in Greece but also in Egypt, Syria and the Ottoman Empire. Unlike most Grand tourists, Hope to be a long time and recorded the architectural setting with a strong sense of place and intimate details. He was also interested in the recording of ethnic clothing and hairstyles. Wash "facilities in a Turkish palace of Constantinople," written about 1790, is a complete investigation, preparatory drawings and notes. This work demonstrates the concern of Hope for the internal mechanisms of luxurious room, which he called "Turkish room. Sopha scarlet cloth and gold fringe. Silk cushions things with velvet flowers .[...] Small Octagon table inlaid in mother of pearl. [...]" The Ten years later, hope to create an exquisite setting for his London home on Duchess Street, reflecting his studies (Oakley, 2002).

Thomas Hope returned from a trip to London. From 1799 to 1802, he turned the 1770 building by Robert Adam in the demonstration of the reform of domestic taste in the UK. He animated a polyglot of Archaeology with a strong infusion of the imperial style that Charles Percier created for Napoleon. With great disappointment, Hope pushed London cabinetmakers practicing an elegant, lightweight, flat and abstract mode we associate with Hepplewhite and Sheraton to produce rich, and the fact that John Morley-called "marble" design. Like others in Europe, from Scandinavia to the foot of Italy, he synthesized the archaeological sources of architecture, sculpture, and ancient and Renaissance furniture (Skaggs, and Folmsbee, 1965).

In England, this goal has been to outline etchings young architect Charles Heathcote Tatham. Thomas Hope Tatham engaged as private secretary to remodel the house of the Duchess Street and add a wing for the art gallery. The gallery was very early in the home ...