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Interior-general view of Ante Room
SC 700918
Description Interior-general view of Ante Room
Date c. 1890
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 700918
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 14438
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.
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