Interior-general view of Dining Room
BL 9802
Description Interior-general view of Dining Room
Date c. 1890
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 9802
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Dining Room, Leithen Lodge, Innerleithen, Scottish Borders Leithen Lodge, an early 19th-century house in the valley of the Leithen Water, was remodelled in 1885-7 by Sydney Mitchell who designed the interiors with Scottish Arts and Crafts details. The house was photographed c.1890 by Harry Bedford Lemere. This elegant room has a late 17th- or early 18th-century style chimneypiece with an Arts and Crafts firegrate. The walls, also in the Arts and Crafts style, have a leaf-patterned wallpaper and a 'naturalistic' frieze with bold, swirling flowers. Although the house generated its own electricity from a hydro-electric scheme powered by a loch further up the valley, the light it produced was harsh and dazzling. Candlelight, with its more gentle light, has clearly been chosen to light the diner table. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
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