The Regency period saw a more austere approach to the use of classical ornament that had previously received such widespread and unfettered interpretation by Robert Adam and his followers during the 18th century.
We supply and install the complete range of Chesneys fireplaces, including their surrounds, register grates, wood & multi-fuel stoves, gas stoves and electric fire baskets.
A neo-classical chimneypiece in statuary marble with carved centre tablet and corner blockings. The jambs and frieze panels are inlaid with Etruscan gold marble.
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The Edinburgh features bowed reeded pilasters and conforming frieze with diagonal ribbons and finely carved paterae to the corner blocks.
An early 19th century limestone chimneypiece of strong and simple design featuring engaged ionic columns and plain fields to the corner blockings and entablature.
An early 19th century chimneypiece in statuary marble with detached reeded columns terminating in finely carved capital mouldings beneath corner blocks displaying classical urns to match the carved centre tablet.
A handsome Regency chimneypiece in statuary marble with fielded panels to the jambs and frieze, the former elegantly tapering downwards from corner blockings with crisply carved rosettes.
Carved in statuary marble this is a design that makes sparing use of refined ornamentation and architectural detail to create a chimneypiece of understated elegance that will suit most interiors.
An English stone chimneypiece of early 19th century design, having moulded jambs and frieze with bullseyes to the capitals.
A Regency style marble surround having reeded jambs and frieze with bullseye capitals.
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