where the destruction is total (for example in the area of the stairs) serious consideration should be given to employing the very best architects and designers of our day to add their contribution to the continuing history of the building. In years to come this should make Uppark far more alive and interesting than a sterile copy of a vanished work of art. There is no reason why today's designers should not create something of great beauty that complements what survives of the Georgian interior (Philip Venning, SPAB News, vol.10, no 4, 1989, p.11) When the exterior of Uppark is restored and its roof replaced it will still be possible to admire the forms and proportions as it had before the fire the design will retain, or regain, its integrity, which is why the uggestion Imade by Sudjic and Pavord] that it should be made obvious by the restorers where the old fabric ends and new begins is patently not on; to draw attention to the contribution of the restorer in this way would be to place dogma above aesthetics [With regard to suggestions for the interiorl The fact is that e live in times of such stylistic confusion and uncertainty that to advocate the use of "the very best architects and designers of our day' is liable to be a recipe for aesthetic disaster (Roger White, Georgian Group, Report and Journal 19 p.16)