Interior-general view of archway into small sitting room
SC 695374
Description Interior-general view of archway into small sitting room
Date 1890
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 695374
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 10099
Scope and Content Drawing Room, Seafield, Doonfoot Road, Ayr, South Ayrshire Seafield, Ayr, home of the engineer, Sir William Arrol, was built in 1888-9 by Robert A Bryden of the architectural firm, Clarke & Bell. Harry Bedford Lemere was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1890, shortly after the house was completed. The room has an arched fireplace alcove, flanked by Ionic-style pilasters, and decorated with a painted frieze of Classical figures. The elaborate overmantel has a central mirror and complicated array of mirrored shelves for displaying ornaments. The room, although grand, has a minimum display of bric-a-brac, and a simple arrangement of furniture, in sharp contrast with the earlier Victorian fashion of surfaces crowded with knick-knacks, and rooms crammed with furniture. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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