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Conference paper (unpublished)
The Caquetoire Legacy
Deriving from a sixteenth century French type, this distinctive form of Scottish chair flourished throughout the seventeenth century. It was revived in authentic facsimile during the nineteenth century and continued in form and spirit to shape a range of modern variants. The speakers will address national and regional identity as...Jackson, Stephen
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Journal article
The Caquetoire Chair in Scotland
Jackson, Stephen
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Journal article
The Graham Gadd collection of furniture ephemera
National Museums Scotland recently received a donation of furniture related items from RFS member Graham Gadd.Jackson, Stephen
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Journal article
Twenty-first century sofa: conserving an eighteenth century object for modern museum display
This article describes the upholstery conservation treatment of a mid-eighteenth century sofa made for Spencer House, one of London's finest private houses. The sofa is now in the collection of National Museums Scotland. Details are given about the object's history, the approach taken to the complex treatment options, and the...McClean, Lynn ; Porter, Heather ; Jackson, Stephen
collaboration, conservation, sofa, Ethafoam™, upholstery, and digital
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Book chapter
The influence of Scotland in American cabinet making
Every field of the decorative arts in colonial and early America is infused with Scottish culture - from furniture, textiles and weaponry to silver, jewellery, glass and ceramics. Making for America is a fascinating study of the transatlantic relationship between Scottish craftsmanship and the emigrant workers of the eighteenth and...Jackson, Stephen
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Journal article
Lamps for Robert Rowat 1902
The National Museum of Scotland reopened on the 29th July. Amongst the 832 objects featuring in Window on the World, a vast installation occupying the south wall of the Grand Gallery, are three lanterns designed by Mackintosh for 14 Kingsborough Gardens, Glasgow.Jackson, Stephen
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Journal article
Recent fieldwork in Argyll
Jackson, Stephen