joiners and carpenters, wood carvers, plasterers,
decorative painters and other craftspeople would have been employed in the
completion of the room.
The room was probably made by several
craftsmen. The early years of the 17th century were part of a wave of new
building and rebuilding in England. Skilled builder/architects developed new
styles based on designs from other houses and from engravings of buildings
published and circulated for adaptation. The craftsmen used pattern books
and prints as guides for decorative elements.
Medieval building techniques and design principles were replaced by new ideas,
based on the classical ideals of proportion and symmetry, and a love of the
“artificial” – artifice – skilled craftsmanship that
created images, fantasies, allegories, and narrative stories through the visual
arts.
Workshops of joiners and carpenters, wood carvers, plasterers,
decorative painters and other craftspeople would have been employed in the
completion of the room.
