What is Scagliola, and how did a marble imitation become an object of desire?
By Catherine Jacobi It began as a way to imitate costly stone. Within a century, Grand Tourists were waiting years for tables made of it by a monk in the Tuscan hills. In the British Museum‘s Enlightenment gallery, the room Robert Smirke designed in the 1820s to hold George III’s library, the walls glow in […]