Author Topic: Royal Interiors, Part II  (Read 212542 times)

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PAVLOV

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Re: Royal Interiors, Part II
« Reply #150 on: May 07, 2010, 05:54:37 AM »
Many of the Broadlands interioirs were designed by David Hicks, who of course was married to Pamela Mountbatten.

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« Reply #151 on: May 07, 2010, 11:23:05 AM »
I have just bought a little book called, "Royal Lodge, Windsor" by Helen Cathcart, published in London in 1966. I shall post more when I have had a good read.

Lindelle

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Re: Royal Interiors, Part II
« Reply #152 on: May 09, 2010, 06:54:14 AM »
Lovely, can't wait :)

Prince Andrew

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Re: Royal Interiors, Part II
« Reply #153 on: May 19, 2010, 10:28:33 AM »
Does any of you have informations about decorations (and furniture) of the Room 1844 in Buckingham Palace? About walls, ceiling, chimney, furniture...?

About this room i only know how used and this: "the 1844 Room, which was decorated in that year for the State visit of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, and, on the other side of the Bow Room, the 1855 Room, in honour of the visit of Emperor Napoleon III of France".

Nikola thanks a lot for your pictures and info...I am new on this site but I have extensively looked at it and it is fantastic. Anyway is there any floor plan of the second floor of BP? I have one in Andrew Morton's book of BP but I don't think it's accurate.

Nikola

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Re: Royal Interiors, Part II
« Reply #154 on: May 19, 2010, 04:21:29 PM »

Nikola thanks a lot for your pictures and info...I am new on this site but I have extensively looked at it and it is fantastic. Anyway is there any floor plan of the second floor of BP? I have one in Andrew Morton's book of BP but I don't think it's accurate.


"Prince Andrew" Welcome to the Forum Alexander Palace Time Machine!!!
I'm very happy because you enjoyed in photos and informations which I set.

Welcome again!

Nikola

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Re: Royal Interiors, Part II
« Reply #155 on: May 19, 2010, 04:54:29 PM »
Kensington Palace
between 1870 and 1900

Presence Chamber:


Kings Gallery:


Cupola Room:


Queens Gallery:

Nikola

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Re: Royal Interiors, Part II
« Reply #156 on: May 19, 2010, 04:56:42 PM »
Kings Drawing Room:


Presence Chamber:


Kings Grand Staircase:


Queen Carolines Drawing Room:



Prince Andrew

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Re: Royal Interiors, Part II
« Reply #157 on: May 19, 2010, 05:15:52 PM »


Thank you Nikola,

I enjoyed a lot the pictures as I love Royal Palaces....BP and WC in particular. That's why whenever I am in London during the summer opening I visit BP if I have time....
Happy we enjoy the same interest.....I hope we can exchange more informations, pictures and book title about this.


jfkhaos

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Re: Royal Interiors, Part II
« Reply #158 on: May 19, 2010, 05:29:09 PM »
I wouldn't have thought that such important family paintings (as I imagine they would be to Queen Victoria) would have hung in Kensington Palace where she wouldn't have seen them, i.e. the painting of her marriage, Bertie's christening, and his subsequent marriage in 1863.  I always imagined them hanging in Buckingham Palace.  Thanks for posting this pictures!

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Re: Royal Interiors, Part II
« Reply #159 on: May 20, 2010, 06:59:02 AM »
Am I seeing this correctly, I radiator hanging on the wall through the arch in the photo of the King's Grand Staircase?

Margot

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Re: Royal Interiors, Part II
« Reply #160 on: May 20, 2010, 07:25:02 AM »
It certainly looks like a radiator has been placed on the wall in the most incongruous position! How very odd! Well spotted eagle eyed Architect!

CHRISinUSA

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Re: Royal Interiors, Part II
« Reply #161 on: May 20, 2010, 07:30:34 AM »
I wouldn't have thought that such important family paintings (as I imagine they would be to Queen Victoria) would have hung in Kensington Palace where she wouldn't have seen them, i.e. the painting of her marriage, Bertie's christening, and his subsequent marriage in 1863.  I always imagined them hanging in Buckingham Palace.  Thanks for posting this pictures!

Royal art and furnishings have always been moved between royal residences from reign to reign.  Some of these pieces may very well have been inside Buckingham Palace in Victoria's time; others may have been commissioned and owned by others (not the Crown) and acquired more recently.  During and after Victoria's death, most of the State Rooms fell to disrepair and lay empty and bare (or used only as storerooms).

In the past, collections used to be broken up and split between properties, or pieces given to courtiers or retainers, or sold when it was determined there was too much excess.  In the 1920s and 1930s, Queen Mary did much to reassemble collections and display them in a more historically proper way.  Today the Royal Collection handles this duty.  

I would imagine if you went to the Historic Royal Palaces website section on Kensington Palace, it would tell you some history about the art presently in the palace.

Lindelle

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Re: Royal Interiors, Part II
« Reply #162 on: May 20, 2010, 08:41:02 AM »
The Kings Grand Staircase - is that the same staircase which shows a picture of Diana standing at the top?

Prince Andrew

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Re: Royal Interiors, Part II
« Reply #163 on: May 20, 2010, 05:45:00 PM »
I have some questions about state rooms of Buckingham palace:

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I know that chimney-piece in The Grand Hall made by Joseph Theakston, in The Green Drawing Room by Joseph Browne, in The Picture Gallery and The East Gallery by Joseph Browne, in The State Dining Room by Matthew Cotes Wyatt, in The Blue Drawing Room by Richard Westmacott Junior, in the White Drawing Room by John Flaxman.
But, does any of you have informations who made chimney-pieces in the Throne Room and Music Room?

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I looked at an old guide of BP but there are no specific information about the Chimeny-piece of the Throne Room! As for the Music Room the guide says that the entire room was designed by Nash (including the mirrors) and it was ready in 1831 and it was never altered subsequently. It seems that he designed the two chimney-pieces as well....
I'll try to check the other guides I have to see if there is something about it.....


Does any of you have informations who design and made the same carpets in The Blue Drawing Room and The White Drawing Room?

Lindelle

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Re: Royal Interiors, Part II
« Reply #164 on: May 21, 2010, 12:11:25 AM »
Somewhere in the earlier posts of this thread there were some pics.
Have you looked through them?
Fascinating leisure time - if you have it to spare. :)