Alison Kelly, who has died aged 102, spent 17 years researching Coade stone, the ceramic artificial stone made by the remarkable entrepreneur Eleanor Coade in a factory in Lambeth in the late 18th ...

Throughout London, there are statues and other items made from a unique building material called Coade stone. Developed by Eleanor Coade for her family business in the late 1700s, this artificial ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Two centuries ago, Eleanor Coade (1733-1821) lived in Belmont, a family villa by the coast in Lyme Regis, Dorset. Its ...

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VISITORS to Croome Court near Worcester will have an opportunity to hear all about Eleanor Coade, an important designer in the eighteenth century, thanks to a new tour. Without her, the stately homes ...

The upcoming auction at Sheppard’s includes magnificent Coade stone sphinxes, Medici lions, Chinese ‘foo dogs’ and more A pair of Coade stone sphinxes at Sheppard's (130cm high x 160cm deep; est.

Episode: 2249 Mrs. Coade’s remarkable stones. Today, architectural historian Margaret Culbertson tells about a woman who made artificial stone.

73.5 x 38 x 14 cm. (28.9 x 15 x 5.5 in.) ...