Lord Chesterfield’s Panelling Highlighted At The Bowes Museum

COUNTY DURHAM.- One of the treasures of The Bowes Museum’s sequence of period room panelling will be highlighted as the Object of the Month for August. Every Thursday at 2.30 curator Howard Coutts will reveal the story behind a segment of panelling from a London townhouse built for Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. Chesterfield, best known for his letters to his [illegitimate] son, giving advice on how to behave and get on in society, was also an international [...]