Interior-general view of Ante Room

Description Interior-general view of Ante Room

Date c. 1890

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number BL 14438

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 700918, B 64370

Scope and Content Office, British Linen Company Bank, Nos 38-9 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh (now the Bank of Scotland) The head office of the British Linen Company Bank was designed in 1846 in the grandest possible style and on a colossal scale by the architect, David Bryce. The photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1896 on the 150th anniversary of the founding of the bank. This rather modest room has a compartmented ceiling and simple cornice decorated with dentils and the Greek 'egg-and-dart' motif. It is lit by an elaborate wrought-brass Art Nouveau electric light fitting, and furnished with a mahogany desk and red leather-covered chairs. Electric lighting, one of the new technologies of the late Victorian era, gave great scope to designers of fitments. Pendant fixtures in metal became popular, and in the late 1890s, multiple lights supported by metal arms in the shape of plant stems and suspended from the ceiling by a single 'root' were fashionable. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

External Reference Box 29

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