Auchterarder House Interior-general view of Bedroom

Description Auchterarder House Interior-general view of Bedroom

Date c. 1888

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

Catalogue Number SC 736977

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 9753

Scope and Content Bedroom, Auchterarder House, Perth & Kinross (latterly Auchterarder House Hotel and presently a private house) Auchterarder House, a Neo-Jacobean mansion house designed in 1834 by William Burn for Captain James Hunter, was extended and lavishly refurbished in 1886-7 by the architect, Sir John James Burnet, for the railway locomotive magnate, James Reid. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior c.1888. The walls of the room are lined to just above door height in draped fabric, with a fabric frieze above. The wooden fireplace is also swathed in material with curtains tied back on either side of the hearth. The highly ornate, possibly Italian, bed is inlaid with ebony and ivory, and has gilded cherubs at each corner of the footboard. The elaborately upholstered easy chair beside the fire is fringed beneath in satin. Burnet refitted the room in fabric and partially disguised the original fireplace in order to create the then current style. In the 1880s one treatment for an unfashionable fireplace was to swathe it in velvet or other material, an arrangement known as French Drapery. Easy chairs, too, were often fashionably fringed beneath, perhaps to keep draughts from the legs of the occupant but more likely for the visual effect. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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