Interior - view of library

Description Interior - view of library

Date 1909

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

Catalogue Number SC 701600

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 20413/8

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 a clearly defined dado rail at chair height, and a cornice with Classical detailing. The chimneypiece has an overmantel with elaborate carvings, and the room is lit by 'rise and fall' electric lights, placed conveniently for reading. The Edwardian library was generally regarded as part of the gentleman's domain of the house, and was often a heavy room where panelling and sombre forms of decoration were thought to be appropriate. It often incorporated the functions of study and smoking room, becoming an all-purpose male room. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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