Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvages Book

Prologue : a book is born

1 Salvaging the interior : 1500-1820 11

2 Salvage and a more amateur antiquarianism 21

3 Continental imports and the Wardour Street trade 37

4 England and the French connection 59

5 Interiors and a new professionalism : 1850-1950 69

6 The growth of a transatlantic trade in rooms and salvages 101

7 The period room in European museums 119

8 North American museums and the English room 147

9 Into American houses go English rooms 201

10 William Randolph Hearst, the great accumulator 219

Check-list of British rooms and salvages exported to the USA

App. 1 Charles Roberson of the Knightsbridge Halls

App. 2 The Paris firm of Carlhian et Cie, exporters of French rooms

App. 3 The Tryon memorandum

App. 4 The Sherborn note

App. 5 The Hearst sale