Acadia Plantation painting of Lord Byron. The furniture in this room is the finest antiques in the house. Against the wall is a Maryland sideboard, Sheraton in style. A corner cabinet nearby is made of mahogany and pine. It was 18th century Chippendale and comes from the estate of Lord Thomas Fairfax of Virginia. The dining table is designed from two card tables and is Victorian mahogany. The rug on which the dining table and chairs is a turn of the century one. In the kitchen and breakfast area, most of the furniture originated from New England. Against the back wall is
Luke Hughes (furniture designer) Luke Hughes (furniture designer) Luke Hughes (born 11 May 1957) is a furniture designer and mountaineer. He and his practice (Luke Hughes®) have designed and made furniture for over 50 Oxbridge colleges, 100 parish churches, 20 major cathedrals and 5 Royal Palaces, 2 synagogues and 900 corporate boardrooms, including Diageo Unilever, Bloomberg and Reuters. As a mountaineer, his expeditions over 25 years include exploring unmapped areas of central Tibet. Hughes was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School and St Paul's School, London before gaining an open history scholarship to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1974. Hughes set up Bloomsbury Joinery, a small craft