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A drinks area inside The Stirling Arcade Shopping Centre. Showing the architecture and decor of times past and present. KING STREET STIRLING. SCOTLAND. ( ZOOM IN! )
If ever in Copenhagen, i implore you to visit the quite magnificent Christiansborg Palace.
It is incredibly beautiful and there are so many different aspects to the building, all making for a splendid location for photography.
Tripods are not allowed, you have to walk around with those blue overshoe socks but it is all worth it.
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The Supreme Adjustable Lamp from the L. G. Hawkins & Co. Ltd. catalogue of Supreme Electric Fittings, Appliances, Fires, etc. [c.1938-9]
I treated myself to a new portrait lens... now I just need to start photographing people. (I also wanted to have another go with Delta 3200... overexposed and underdeveloped is obviously the way forwards!)
17th August 2013 — GBR, Nottinghamshire
Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)
Canon EOS Rebel G (500N)
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
My first day in Egypt included the short bus ride from my Cairo hotel to Al-Jīzah on the outskirts of the city.
Our first stop was at Marriott Mena House.
Once the site of an old hunting lodge set on 16 hectares of gardens, Mena House in Giza first opened to the public in 1886. Photographs of screen stars, presidents and princesses who have visited sit in a case in the elaborate drawing room of this oId stone palace, and I could well imagine Hercule Poirot sitting under the elaborate gas chandelier, looking out over the manicured lawns and the Great Pyramid.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/history/stories-in-ancient-s...
As well as the intricate detail of the light itself, this shot shows quite well the 'giraffe skin' pattern that has been meticulously applied to the walls and ceiling of the main first floor room of the Casa Batllo by Antoni Gaudi.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a monthly challenge called "Freestyle On The Fifth". A different theme chosen by a member of the group each month, and the image is to be posted on the 5th of the month.
This month the theme, "Sparkle" was chosen by Lisa (red stilletto).
Nothing sparkles quite so much under light as crystal chandeliers, and that was their purpose. Whilst we are all used to the illumination of electric light, crystal chandeliers were invented in the Eighteenth Century to reflect candlelight and thus provide more illumination. Mirrors were also used for the same purpose.
These elegant chandeliers I photographed at three different places I visited whilst on holiday in January.
The main right-hand photograph is of is a Nineteenth Century Victorian crystal chandelier in the drawing room of Werribee Mansion, once the home of the Chirnside family, now a historical house open to the public. Visit www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/werribee-park for more details if you would like to visit Werribee Mansion.
The top left-hand photograph is of a Twentieth Century Edwardian crystal chandelier in the entrance hall of "Warwilla", a grand red brick mansion on St Kilda Road built in 1896.
The bottom left-hand photograph is of an Eighteenth Century Georgian crystal chandelier in the Green Room of the Johnston Collection, a small private museum in East Melbourne that specialises in Eighteenth Century and older antiques and decorative arts, consisting entirely of the collection of antique dealer Mr. William Johnston. Visit: johnstoncollection.org/ if you would like to find out more about the Johnston Collection or visit it.
My first day in Egypt included the short bus ride from my Cairo hotel to Al-Jīzah on the outskirts of the city.
Our first stop was at Marriott Mena House.
Once the site of an old hunting lodge set on 16 hectares of gardens, Mena House in Giza first opened to the public in 1886. Photographs of screen stars, presidents and princesses who have visited sit in a case in the elaborate drawing room of this oId stone palace, and I could well imagine Hercule Poirot sitting under the elaborate gas chandelier, looking out over the manicured lawns and the Great Pyramid.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/history/stories-in-ancient-s...
Bottle Room, Green Man Pub, Ropsley. A light fitting formed of old bottles, in the Bottle Room at the Green Man Public House.
Ropsley, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England - Green Man, High Street
June 2022
The De La Warr Pavilion is a grade I listed building, located on the seafront at Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, on the south coast of England. The Art Deco and International Style building was designed by the architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff and constructed in 1935. Although sometimes claimed to be the first major Modernist public building in Britain, it was in fact preceded by some months by the Dutch-influenced Hornsey Town Hall.
An interesting light pendant in our accommodation in Rotterdam. They were all lying down when we arrived so I took a minute or so to right them so they could continue their battle.
This is my cast iron lamp post and it's Day Burning for photo.
The light fitting has 4 X 11 watt preheat fluorescent pl lamps fitted and gives out a nice cool white light.
The Cast Iron Post was made by Wright's Foundry Co Ltd in Leicester.
One of my favourite Gaudi details from the Casa Batllo was the sculptured ceilings. The way they integrate the light with the structure is the complete opposite to many modern houses where a single pendant hangs from the centre of the room (if you're lucky) looking like an afterthought. It's just one example of Gaudis comprehensive design ethos.
Surrounded by modern office and apartment blocks the grand red brick mansion “Warwillah”, built on the corner of Beatrice Street and St Kilda Road, is one of the few remaining examples of a time Melbourne’s St Kilda Road was still a grand boulevard of elegant residences.
In March 1875 the government announced that the land on the western side of St Kilda Road would be alienated from parkland and that the land would be sold for residential purposes. Following the subdivision, a gentleman of means named Rudolph D. Benjamin purchased the land on which he planned to build an elegant residence as befitting his station.
Designed by well known Melbourne architect John Beswicke, “Redholme” was a sixteen-roomed brick mansion built on Mr. Benjamin’s block in 1896 by the builder James Downie. Although not in the Benjamin family, “Redholme” survived the death taxes that came after the Great War and the Great Depression of 1929. It was still a privately owned home in its entirety in 1939 when it was owned by Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Reddish. Sadly, after the Second World War, “Redholme” changed ownership, usage and even name. From the early 1950s, the red brick building became the “Warwilla Guest House”. The name “Warwilla” is what the house has been known as ever since.
“Warwilla” is an unusual mansion as it is an early example of a transition from Modern Gothic to Queen Anne design. The red brick tuckpointed facade is asymmetrical with picturesque massing, but the larger half-timbered gable and cantilevered banked window on the south side is balanced by the octagonal corner tower and ‘candle snuffer’ roof on the north. The Modern Gothic is suggested by the depressed pointed arches to main openings, and engaged colonettes at the porch entrance, whilst the half-timbered gable, octagonal tower with ‘candle snuffer’ roof and Art Nouveau stained glass windows are very much stylistic elements of Queen Anne architecture. These elements were to remain popular for at least another decade. The tall banded brick chimneys (done in the style of Henry Kemp) dominate the terracotta tile roof, as do the decorative finials which include a dragon.
Walking through the stained glass framed front door, you enter “Warwilla’s” lofty entrance hall. The original ornate Art Nouveau plaster ceilings and foyer fireplace with brass, wood and tiled surround still remain intact. A grand early twentieth century crystal chandelier hangs from the central ceiling rose. On the landing of the original staircase a fine stained glass window by British born, German trained, Melbourne stained glass artist William Montgomery still overlooks St Kilda Road. Featuring a beautiful woman in Tudor garb in a garden setting, the window is typical of the British Arts and Crafts Movement which would have dominated interior design at the time. Framed by stylised Tudor flowers and pomegranates the line “a merlin sat upon her wrist, held by a leash of silken twist” appears on a scroll. Taken from the long narrative poem “The Lay of the Last Minstrel” written in 1805 by Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832) the choice of image and literary quote hark back to heraldic times, a great driver of the aesthetics of the British Arts and Crafts Movement. The stair hall window is signed by William Montgomery in the bottom left-hand corner of the frame, where it also lists his address as 164 Flinders Street.
At the time of photographing “Warwilla” was partly a Seasons heritage boutique hotel and partly the entrance to a towering modern apartment block which has been built directly behind it.
John Beswicke (1847 – 1925) was a Melbourne architect and surveyor between 1882 and 1915. He was apprenticed to the firm Crouch and Wilson at the age of sixteen. He worked there for eighteen years, finishing as head assistant. In 1882 Ralph Wilson and John Beswicke formed the partnership Wilson and Beswicke. Through his career he was in sole practice as J. Beswicke, between and following three partnerships including Beswicke and Hutchins, and Beswicke and Coote. John Beswicke designed many commercial and residential buildings during his career. These include: the Brighton Town Hall, the Dandenong Town Hall, the Essendon Town Hall, the Hawthorn Town Hall, the Malvern Town Hall, the St Kilda Presbyterian Church, the Auburn shopping strip along Auburn road, “Bendigonia” in Leopold Street Melbourne which runs off St Kilda Road, “Tudor House” in Williamstown, “Tudor Lodge” (later renamed “Hilton House”) home to Mr. Cullis Hill in Hawthorn, “Redholme” (later renamed Warwilla) and his own Hawthorn home “Rotha”.