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The State Library of Victoria invites you to celebrate the centenary of its iconic dome

Since 1913 the Library's domed reading room has been the symbolic heart of our great institution. Celebrate the scholarship, creativity and learning this architectural icon has inspired for generations of Victorians. Learn more

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welsh dresser

By lawrie horner , furniture maker, melbourne
Friday 03 May 2013 0 Comments
furniture

I have made and restored fine furniture for 30 years, mostly as a hobby but sometimes for money. I have just renovated my shop-front dwelling and am making a house-full of funtire to fit.

I am part Welsh. I want a Welsh dresser. I emailed a furniture firm in Wales - partly in Welsh - and got a link to a book on Welsh furniture over the last 500 years. I got this oh so beautiful book (2 volumes) from your reserved collection in you wonderful library and photocopied all the pages on Welsh dressers. Then  I drooled over this book under your dome.

I shall make a lovely welsh dresser courtesy of your book and dome. Cymru am byth! (Wales for ever!)

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