Interior - view of bedroom
SC 701582
Description Interior - view of bedroom
Date 1909
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 701582
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 20413/13
Scope and Content Bedroom, No 1 Park Gardens, Glasgow No 1 Park Gardens, one of six houses in a short Italianate terrace designed c.1855 by the architect, Charles Wilson, on the slopes of Woodlands Hill, was redecorated c.1900 as a townhouse for Lord Inverclyde. The photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1909. This bedroom has walls lined with a delicately striped paper, and a frieze with Adamesque swags, repeated around the base of the light fittings. The furnishings include a chintz-covered sofa and matching curtains, and a brass 'rise and fall' electric light fitting at the window. In 1909, electric lighting in private households was still something of a novelty. When electric light fittings were initially installed in bedrooms, they were fitted at the window in order to mimic the effect of natural light, and, like this example, usually had counterbalanced weights to allow the lamps to be raised or lowered. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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