Interior - view of sitting room

Description Interior - view of sitting room

Date 1909

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

Catalogue Number SC 701585

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 20413/11

Scope and Content Drawing Room, 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 room has a panelled dado, and a chimneypiece with Classical-style detailing. The windows, with views over the Kelvin valley, run the full height of the room. The surfaces, relatively uncluttered, display a wealth of family photographs. A contemporary telephone sits on a small table at the window. The Edwardian drawing room was the ladies' territory of the house, and was usually light-coloured and fairly uncluttered with a minimum of bric-a-brac around the room. Armchairs were often covered in chintz, and English late 18th-century style furniture was considered fashionable. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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