Over the past twenty years, architectural paint research has developed rapidly as a discipline that provides insights into the use of historic paint and the history and development of historic interiors, and is now recognised as an important tool in the conservation of historic buildings.
This volume of papers presented at the conference Architectural Paint Research in Building Conservation held at the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, provides a unique overview and discussion of the latest developments within the field.
The book will be appreciated by architects and those responsible for the management of historic interiors as well as specialist researchers, conservators, decorators and interior designers.
Published in association with the National Museum of Denmark and with the support of English Heritage.
Foreword by Line Bregnhøi
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Methods of architectural paint research
The potential of architectural paint research in building analysis and conservation
Helen Hughes
Data on strata: NIKU's practice for the documentation of architectural paint research
Kristin Solberg
Material analysis in relation to architectural paint research
Mads Chr. Christensen
The Corbit-Sharp House at Odessa, Delaware: finishes analysis and interpretation of four interior rooms
Catherine R. Matsen
Colour investigation of an historic interior with the extensive use of cross-section samples
Bo Kjeld Kierkegaard
Paint research on 20th-century architecture: the case of the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau
Thomas Danzl
Do you see what I see? Historic paint colour investigations
Mary A. Jablonski
The history of architectural paint research in Latvia: practice and problems
Vija Strupule
Investigating wallpapers: the potential of integrated research within historic interiors
Allyson McDermott
Creating forums for debate: an overview of historic interiors research and conservation in the Netherlands
Mariël Polman
How paint archaeology and analysis helped to decipher the Aiken-Rhett house and its outbuildings
Susan L. Buck
Assessment and utilisation of research
Changed forever? Part 1: architectural paint investigation at the Canadian Conservation Institute
James Bourdeau
Changed forever? Part 2: documentation of architectural paint finishes at the Canadian Conservation Institute
Nancy E. Binnie
Architectural paint research: an important tool for understanding historic buildings and their interiors
Eloy F. Koldeweij
Deciphering an architectural interior: an approach to paint archaeology of the Benjamin Kimball house in Concord, New Hampshire
Melissa McGrew
Architectural paint research in the building context: the research has finished - what's next?
Ruth Jongsma
Looking for vanished decorations in Victor Horta's Hôtel Frison: an assessment of puzzling archaeological findings
Wivine Wailliez
Practical considerations and works programme
The 'ideal' client doesn't exist but a 'good' client can! A paint researcher's perspective
Neilian Crick and Michael Smith
'Would you please do a scrape of my living-room wall and find the original colour?' Architectural paint research seen in a wider context
Jon Brænne
Which goes with which? The role of paint analysis and investigation in the restoration and reconstruction of earlier significant decorative schemes
Robyn Riddett
Investigation and presentation of historic architectural paint in buildings of the town of Torgau in Saxony, Germany
Mechthild Noll-Minor
The importance of architectural paintings conservation for the preservation of cultural properties in Taiwan
Yi-fang Tang and Pai-hwai Wu
Communication with public
Towards a methodology of architectural paint research: experiences in Austria and central Europe
Manfred Koller
Interpretation and accessibility to the public: a challenge for architectural paint research
Richard Kjellström
Humble dwellings were decorated indeed: painting techniques and wall coverings of middle and working class interiors
Elsbeth Geldhof
Peeling the onion: paint analysis, presentation and the public
Christine Leback Sitwell
Questions and answers sessions
Index
Reviews
For the average interested reader, general sources of information on architectural paint research are frustratingly few. Therefore the publication of a superbly presented, beautifully illustrated and authoritative new text - Paint Research in Building Conservation - should be a welcome addition...I hope it will become an essential guide to paint research for a broad range of building conservation professionals: architects, curators, historic building managers, surveyors, historians, researchers, conservators and decorators.
ICON News 8 (January 2007) 40
