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The interior of Dyffryn House at Dyffryn Gardens.
It is in Dyffryn in the Vale of Glamorgan. Not too far from Cardiff. The gardens are owned by the National Trust. There is also a house on the site, that is undergoing refurbishment, it opens at midday (the parts that are open though).
Dyffryn House was first home to Admiral Sir Thomas Button in the 16th century. Then in the 18th century the Pryce family took ownership. The last family to live in the house was the Cory family from the late 19th century.
Bought by John Cory the house you see today is mostly his remodelling. John's only daughter Florence was the last of the family to live here, passing away in 1937.
The estate was bought by Sir Cennydd Traherne, a local land lower. This is when it began it's life as a training centre and then a conference centre.
The conference centre closed in 1998. For a brief period the house as due to become a hotel. Much of the damage was caused by this plan.
In 2013, 17 years after doors closed, the National Trust has reopened the house to keep the story going.
The house is Grade II* listed.
Interior
Lavish interiors the main rooms of which are designed in a wide variety of styles in a manner often favoured by wealthy C19 owners. Some of the chimneypieces are said to have been brought from other houses. The single most important room is the Great Hall which echoes those of major C16 country houses (eg Hampton Court and Burghley) with its full height, mock hammerbeam roof and large end window. The walls are enriched with two tiers of pilasters carrying friezes, a dentilled cornice to top and corbelled round arches with gilded keystones below over a panelled dado. 5-bay implied double-hammerbeam roof which is herringbone-boarded. Grand timber chimneypiece with massive cornice carried by full height terms; stone fireplace surround and overmantel with Ionic columns flanking coat of arms. Enormous window to N end with coloured glass depicting Queen Elizabeth I; round-arched doorway below with double doors and marble columns. Splayed dais recess to W wall with coffered ceiling. At S end the minstrels gallery is carried on curved brackets and spans an open passage leading from the staircase hall giving access to the Great Hall and neighbouring rooms, the doorways to which are surmounted by large plaster relief 'tondi'. To the E of the Great Hall is the Billiard Room which has a dado, with integral bench seating, below a deep band of carved panelling in an exceptionally florid Renaissance manner; similar frieze and chimneypiece and a deeply panelled ceiling with ceiling bosses. The Orchid room to S has painted ceiling, Ionic columns and gilded surrounds to wall panelling. Immediately next door is the Rose Room which is in a broadly C18 French style (see especially the delicately painted ceiling with corner roundels and the gilded festoons to the beaded surrounds of the wall panelling). The fine marble chimneypiece however is more ca.1600 in style with tapered figural pilasters, Smythson-like bosses and strapwork surrounding an equestrian figure with a French inscription: "Dieu Benit La Zouche de Courson". To the W is the Tulip Room (now Dining room) with ribbed ceiling including Gothic foliate bosses; bowed W end backs onto the Bar while the N wall backs onto the wainscotted Staircase Hall which at its E end has wall-arcading in a similar manner to that of the Great Hall. Broad stairs with long flights; shaped tread ends and panelled newels with finials. 1st floor landing has paired marble columns and beyond that the stairs continue in a similar manner to 2nd floor. The Oak room opens off the Staircase Hall. This was formerly the dining room and has a panelled ceiling, wainscotting and mullioned and transomed windows all in a Tudor/Elizabethan manner; similar style inglenook-like fireplace with oval smoke window. The two remaining public rooms to W are the Bar and Lounge for the conference centre. The former has lightly ribbed ceiling but luxuriantly foliage encrusted marble chimneypiece in an C18 manner and reuses a remarkable French style 7-double branch chandelier; modern panelling. The lounge has unusual plaster ceiling with broad ribs and thistle, rose and daffodil ornament to square, diamond and lozenge shaped panels. Fine French chateau style marble chimneypiece with putti flanking round-arched fireplace containing Fleur-de-lis fireback.
Staircase and light fitting
Been ages since I've been to this Starbucks (only my second visit).
Drink and food in takeaway packaging (coffee cup and paper bag).
Saw this lights opposite my table.
This is a light fitting I saw in a furniture shop. The light is turned on.
See what it looks like when the light is not turned on.
Within the Belgian pavilion, one aspect of the artists design were these light fittings made of glass bottles. I thought it really struck out as a bold design but works so well, the distortion taking place, the different parts of the bottle (the neck, the body, the base) creating different shades from the glow within.
04 Sep 2008, UK --- Seating around coffee table in living room in UK home --- Image by Richard Powers/Arcaid/Corbis
A low exposure shot of a light in the stairwell, shot against the 'V' forming the stairs makes an interesting abstract.
For once had my Friday lunch in Costa Snow Hill.
This time sitting at a table looking out to the Snow Hill Square and Colmore Row.
For some reason, the views reminded me of London a bit!
Outside is one of my usual Colmore Row places to get lunch: Sainsbury's Local! There is also a new Pret a Manger to the right.
Lighting in a local restaurant reflected in a mirror and appearing to stretch to infinity
2024PAD 107/366 (16/04)
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”.
This opaque glass Art Deco shade of an unusual, bulbulous shape features a geometric pattern picked out by hand in red, black and green paint. It appears atop a 1920s chrome standard lamp with a Bakelite base.
Private collection.
This opaque glass Art Deco shade of an unusual, bulbulous shape features a geometric pattern picked out by hand in red, black and green paint. It appears atop a 1920s chrome standard lamp with a Bakelite base.
Private collection.
The former Odeon Cinema Scarborough during transformation in 1995 to the Stephen Joseph Theatre. A scanned image.
The box office in the main foyer. Art deco designed wood and chrome with new lightfittings.
Scarborough Stephen Joseph Theatre - box office
A scanned negative from 1995
Light fitting at Costa Tesco Five Ways.
Pretty basic compared to some of the other ones I've seen in other Costa's!
This time went here after seeing Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Light fitting from the RMS Olympic (sister ship to the Titanic) dismantled in 1936.
Exploring Cutler's Hall in Sheffield on the Heritage Open Day, 10th September 2016.
Cutlers' Hall is a Grade II* listed building on Church Street in Sheffield that is the headquarters of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire. It was built in 1832 by Samuel Worth and Benjamin Broomhead Taylor at a cost of £6,500. It was extended in 1865–7 by Flockton & Abbott, and again in 1888 by J. B. Mitchel-Withers. It is Sheffield's third Cutlers' Hall, the previous buildings, which were built in the same location, were constructed in 1638 and 1725.
TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes by Herzog & de Meuron. Santa Cruz de Tenerife Canary Island Spain. The lights drop from the ceiling
On our first lunchtime in Nottingham, we ended up in Bagel Nash.
It is on Wheeler Gate in Nottingham.
You can choose different bagels, with different fillings.
Drinks as well.
We headed upstairs to sit and eat.
light fitting with interesting light bulb.
17-02-10 The title says it all. What do you think this is? Have a guess and I'll let you all know later on. Processing wise? Well without giving too much away I only used lightroom for this. Specifically only the tone sliders. I boosted the blacks and the exposure and was left with this. Hmm... what is it?
In the long running "Will they move to Manchester?" saga there has been another development. The wife has heard from them and they have deemed her "employable" but her points total is less than what they wanted. So she is now on a shortlist with Manchester so if other people turn down their offers she may be offered the job. I have no idea if that is good or bad! She also now has an interview with the Yorkshire Deanery on March 4th. Wish her luck!
Manual Page Read: Page 21-24 - Inserting a memory card. (That needs 3 pages??)
Images Viewed: I found this pretty neat guide to photographic composition, if you can ignore the crazy 80's photos there are some real lessons to be learned here.
Other Inspiration: I only took my camera out of my bag once today. I took photos in one single place and challenged myself to find a shot in a small period of time. After that I felt like it was something I should try to do more. Many times I will take a LOT of pics just to find one to use. I now realise I need to be more economical with my shutter. Saying that this probably isn't my best ever shot and it may be a reflection of this technique.
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An even number of teardrop-shaped lights int he light fitting at the top of my stairs.
For 52 in 2025: 24 - Even.
For 125 in 2025: 103 - Teardrop shaped.
I felt inspired the other day to photograph some of my favourite objects, some new acquisitions and birthday presents, some are old faithfuls...
Its Autumn here and the colours are lovely brick-reds and steely grey-blues...
A piece of broken china plate with mulberry red stripes, part of a ceramic ceiling light pulley, and a set of stamped silver spoons from Etsy seller 'JLynnCreations' which I asked to have custom-stamped with 'silence, patience, tendresse, douceur'...to remind me to be calm and relaxed sometimes!!
Heading up Via Pantaneto in Siena.
light fitting - The Horned Lion District (Leocorno)
Leocorno is situated to the east of the Piazza del Campo. Traditionally, its residents were goldsmiths.
Leocorno's symbol is a unicorn, rampant, with the motto "Humberti regio gratia" ("A kingdom by the grace of Umberto"). Its colours are orange and white, bordered with blue.
Leocorno won the Palio of August 16, 2007
Circular light fitting near the Food Hall in the Pavilions Birmingham.
Near top floor Marks & Spencer exit.
Had just been to the M & S Cafe.
There is rumours that Primark want to buy the Pavilions. And sublet it.
Not sure what that will mean for M & S and Waterstone's (although they have their own buildings attached to the Pavilions).