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The Bachelor Duke's architect was Jeffry Wyatville, and the work was carried out in an Italianate style which blends in smoothly with the more elaborate finish of the baroque house. The Duke had a passion for marble and the new interiors were embellished with a great deal of it. Like his ancestor the 1st Duke, he didn't know what he was getting into at first, and had many changes of mind over the years. The main purpose of the alterations to the main block was to meet early 19th-century standards of comfort and the more informal lifestyle of the time, compared to that of the 1st Duke's day. This meant adding many more corridors around the sides of the courtyard so that rooms could be reached from indoors without going through one to get to another, and increasing the number of shared living rooms at the expense of the old system of putting up each guest in a separate apartment. The Oak Stairs were built at the northern end of the Painted Hall to improve internal communications. The principal existing interiors were largely respected. The Duke wrote that he was tempted to demolish the state apartment, which was then seen as gloomy and dull, to make way for new best bedrooms but he did not do so (at around the same time Queen Victoria decided that Hampton Court, with its state apartments in the same style, was uninhabitable). Changes to the main baroque interiors were restricted to such things as putting stamped leather hangings on the walls of the State Music Room and State Bedroom, and replacing the 1st Duke's steep curved double staircase in the painted hall with a wider, shallower, but less elegant one, which was later replaced itself. The Duke was a great book collector, so he had the long gallery converted into a library with an elegant white decor embellished with green malachite columns. He soon found that he needed more shelf space, so he had the room stripped bare and installed a new interior with bookcases covering nearly all of the walls and a wooden gallery for access to the higher shelves.