{"id":4969,"date":"2015-08-01T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leeds-castle.com\/?post_type=conservation&p=4969"},"modified":"2023-09-18T13:27:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:27:38","slug":"castle-dining-room","status":"publish","type":"conservation","link":"https:\/\/leeds-castle.com\/support\/conservation\/castle-dining-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Castle Dining Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This room was initially used by Lady Baillie as a Servants\u2019 Hall and divided into three separate spaces. In 1938 she and her designer Stephane Boudin decided to transform it into a formal dining room decorated with 18th century tapestries and Chinese porcelain. The new scheme was nearly finished when the Second World War broke out and the Castle was used as a field hospital. The new dining room was used as a hospital ward where injured servicemen could recuperate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the war, the room was finished and Lady Baillie continued to entertain her guests in it right up until her death in 1974. During the last decade of her life, she had redecorated the room with a new designer, Claude Mandron, in a scheme that satisfied 1960s tastes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, the room had become faded and tired, with the curtains in need of replacement and the set of five tapestries in dire need of conservation treatment. The carpet had become threadbare and the parquet floor was scuffed and marked. In order to return the room to its original splendour extensive research was carried out to identify the original 1930s wall colour, reweave the specially designed curtain fabric and to decide how best to treat the tapestries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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