Interior-First floor, saloon.

Description Interior-First floor, saloon.

Date 1905

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

Catalogue Number SC 737102

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 64542

Scope and Content Saloon, Yester House, East Lothian (now a private house) Yester House, the home of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, was built in the early 18th century as a Classical mansion to the design of James Smith & Alexander MacGill. Over the next 250 years, the interior was altered and improved by several of Scotland's most renowned architects, including William Adam and his sons, Robert & John, and the 19th-century architect, Robert Brown. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the house in 1905. The saloon has a huge coved ceiling with diminishing octagonal coffers, magnificent pedimented doors, and long foliage plasterwork tendrils in the corners of the ceiling. The chimneypiece and overmantel (right) are an updated version of the Rococo work in the dining room downstairs, and the walls have paintings of Classical fantasies, imitating tapestry, by the French artist, William Delacour, completed in 1761. The saloon, described as the finest room in Lothian if not in Scotland, was designed in collaboration between the Adams, father and sons. The basic idea of the coved ceiling and pedimented doors belongs to William Adam, but it was carried out by his son Robert (with John as business manager). The wall reliefs foreshadow Robert Adam's later treatment of state rooms in great English houses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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