Interior - view of dining room
SC 701593
Description Interior - view of dining room
Date 1909
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 701593
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 20413/3
Scope and Content Dining 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. The room is lined with 17th-century style wood panelling decorated with Ionic pilasters, and attached to the ceiling by a Classical cornice. The ceiling has exuberant plasterwork decoration concentrated within an oval form, and a silk-skirted central electric light fitting that can be raised or lowered over the table. The Edwardian dining room was generally regarded as a heavy room where panelling and sombre tones were thought to be appropriate. Here, the panelling is a reproduction of the fashionable wall linings of a typical wealthy 17th-century household where the panelling was often decorated with Classical orders. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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