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Bedroom 1987

Seen here in our London gallery.

 

These are available from www.nomliving.com/products/50%2C106

 

Or from our Columbia Road Shop at 102 Columbia Road, open Saturdays 12-5pm and Sundays 8am-4pm.

China --- Room interior --- Image by © Yi Lu/Viewstock/Corbis

Padded wall with double bed in showflat by Collett-Zarzycki, property development by Richard Rogers, Bankside, Central London, UK

Maria Kilbourn Eastman's bedroom, George Eastman House.

Plas Newydd House and Gardens

here is yet another 1 of my ebay finds-a vintage dressing table for 99p-cant wait to go and pick it up

Another freebie from hard rubbish.

Double Pedestal Dressing Table - The Banbury Bedroom Furniture Range. White Bedroom Furniture. Visit www.address72.com Today.

Find your great modern contemporary furniture and buy online for quick home delivery.

Sowerbutts Furnishers, entrance from Pay and Display car park at rear of massive furniture showrooms, Victoria Buildings, 10 King St, Clitheroe, BB7 2EP

www.sowerbuttsfurniture.co.uk

Seen here in our London gallery.

 

These colourful bowls are available from www.nomliving.com/products/50%2C106

 

Or from our Columbia Road Shop at 102 Columbia Road, open Saturdays 12-5pm and Sundays 8am-4pm.

And I have my eye on a different chair to replace the iron one... sssshhhh don`t tell my hubby! Lol

Seen here in our London gallery.

 

These colourful bowls are available from www.nomliving.com/products/50%2C106

 

Or from our Columbia Road Shop at 102 Columbia Road, open Saturdays 12-5pm and Sundays 8am-4pm.

Getting ready for a night out

Melbourne based street artist Rone (Tyrone Wright) used the decaying glory of the 1933 Harry Norris designed Streamline Moderne mansion, Burnham Beeches in the Dandenong Ranges' Sherbrooke, between March the 6th and April 22nd to create an immersive hybrid art space for his latest installation exhibition; "Empire".

 

"Empire" combined a mixture of many different elements including art, sound, light, scent, found objects, botanic designs, objects from nature and music especially composed for the project by Nick Batterham. The Burnham Beeches project re-imagines and re-interprets the spirit of one of Victoria’s landmark mansions, seldom seen by the public and not accessed since the mid 1980s. According to Rone - Empire website; "viewers are invited to consider what remains - the unseen cultural, social, artistic and spiritual heritage which produces intangible meaning."

 

Rone was invited by the current owner of Burnham Beeches, restaurateur Shannon Bennett, to exhibit "Empire" during a six week interim period before renovations commence to convert the heritage listed mansion into a select six star hotel.

 

Rone initially imagined the mansion to be in a state of dereliction, but found instead that it was a stripped back blank canvas for him to create his own version of how he thought it should look. Therefore, almost all the decay is in fact of Rone's creation from grasses in the Games Room which 'grow' next to a rotting billiards table, to the damp patches, water staining and smoke damage on the ceilings. Nests of leaves fill some spaces, whilst tree branches and in one case an entire avenue of boughs sprout from walls and ceilings. Especially designed Art Deco wallpaper created in Rone's studio has been installed on the walls before being distressed and damaged. The rooms have been adorned with furnishings and objects that might once have graced the twelve original rooms of Burnham Beeches: bulbulous club sofas, half round Art Deco tables, tarnished silverware and their canteen, mirrored smoke stands of chrome and Bakelite, glass lamps, English dinner services, a glass drinks trolley, photos of people long forgotten in time, walnut veneer dressing tables reflecting the installation sometimes in triplicate, old wire beadsteads, luggage, shelves of books, an Underwood typewriter, a John Broadwood and Sons of London grand piano and even a Kriesler radiogramme. All these objects were then covered in a thick sheet or light sprinkling of 'dust' made of many different things including coffee grinds and talcum powder, creating a sensation for the senses. Burnham Beeches resonated with a ghostly sense of its former grandeur, with a whiff of bittersweet romance.

 

Throughout the twelve rooms, magnificent and beautifully haunting floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall portraits of Australian actress Lily Sullivan, star of the Foxtel re-make of Picnic at Hanging Rock, appear. Larger than life, each portrait is created in different colours, helping to create seasonal shifts as you move from room to room.

 

Although all the rooms are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study features walls of books covered with a portrait of Lily Sullivan, and the entire room is partially submerged in a lake of black water with the occasional red oak leaf floating across its glassy surface. The Dining Room features two long tables covered in a Miss Havisham like feast of a trove of dinner table objects from silverware and glassware to empty oyster shells and vases of grasses and feathers.

 

The Dining Room installation I found especially confronting. In 1982, I visited Burnham Beeches when it was a smart and select hotel and had Devonshire tea in the dining room at a table alongside the full length windows overlooking the terraces below. I was shocked to see a room I remember appointed with thick carpets and tables covered in gleaming silver and white napery, strewn with dust and leaves, and adorned with Miss Havisham's feast of found dining objects.

 

I feel very honoured and privileged to be amongst the far too few people fortunate enough to have seen Rone's "Empire", as like the seasons, it is ephemeral, and it will already have been dismantled. Rone's idea is that, like his street art, things he creates don't last forever, and that made the project exciting. I hope that my photographs do justice to, and adequately share as much as is possible of this amazing installation with you.

 

A composition for Week 03 - Colour and texture - set by the Compositionally Challenged Group.

 

A composition used in January's 2022 Most Versatile challenge - set by the Compositionally Challenged Group.

 

A composition using J's butterfly make-up mirror which she was given at Christmas. I needed a photo having a mirror as it's subject matter, and I wanted to show off the beauty of J's present too of course.

Seen here in our London gallery.

 

These are available from www.nomliving.com/products/50%2C106

 

Or from our Columbia Road Shop at 102 Columbia Road, open Saturdays 12-5pm and Sundays 8am-4pm.

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