Interior - view of door and bookcase in library
SC 701589
Description Interior - view of door and bookcase in library
Date 1909
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 701589
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 20413/9
Scope and Content Library, 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. The library is lined with 17th-century style wood (wainscot) panelling, with clearly defined divisions into dado (at chair height), frieze and cornice (with Classical dentil detailing). Between the dado and frieze are arched niches with built-in glass-fronted bookcases, and decorated pilasters flanking the door. In the 17th century, wainscot in oak or walnut was a fashionable and expensive form of wall lining in wealthy households. It was regarded as a movable plenishing: a man might bequeath his wainscoting, for example, independently of his house. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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