Watercolour

The decoration firm of William Henry Haynes & Co. offered the latest in traditional period schemes, revived and adapted for the smaller domestic environments but with modern touches. The early Georgian panelling, including an elaborate fireplace, is stripped in the fashion of the unhistorical preference of the day. This taste was influenced by a display of 18th-century panelling at the V&A in the mid-1920s, in which the paint on the panelling had been intentionally removed to reveal the surface of the wood and the technique of the carving underneath.