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A beautiful portico on the national Theatre in Sofia. #47 for the group 118 pictures in 2018. NB if you zoom in on the cherub to the right of the main figure, you'll see someone got carried away with the gold paint!
The Musée Picasso is housed the Hôtel Salé, rue de Thorigny, in the Marais district of Paris, a beautiful 17th century building that was once home to Pierre Aubert. The architect was Jean Boullier from Bourges. The chandeliers are the work of Diego Giacometti who created them specifically for the Picasso museum.
Osgoode Hall
Interior view of the Great Library
Cumberland, Frederic W.
Storm, William G.
1857-1860
Governmental
Architecture
plaster, wood
Nineteenth Century
Toronto, ON
Neoclassicism
Canada
H. Seneff original
Great Library of the Law Society of Upper Canada built by Cumberland and Storm (1857-1860) is a "triple cube" design and has a cork floor; the windows are etched glass; Frances Norma Loring's War Memorial (1928) at the far end in this view
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The Hall of the Abencerrajes (Sala de los Abencerrajes) is located in front of the Hall of the Two Sisters (Sala de Dos Hermanas). The walls have plasterwork covers and a tile skirting board from the 16th century, of Renaissance style. A wonderful dome of mocarabes rests on eight pendentives of mocarabes. The windows that are where the dome starts let a faint light filter through and illuminate the mocarabes creating a magic atmosphere.
The Alhambra is an ancient palace, fortress and citadel located in Granada, Spain. It was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1984.
The eighth-century-old site was named for the reddish walls and towers that surrounded the citadel — al-qal’a al-hamra in Arabic means red fort or castle. It is the only surviving palatine city of the Islamic Golden Age and a remnant of the Nasrid Dynasty, the last Islamic kingdom in Western Europe.
The Alhambra is located on the Sabika hill — a strategic vantage point that provides views of the city and plain of Granada. The Alhambra complex had three main sections: The Alcazaba, a military base that housed guards and their families; the palatial zone, which contained several palaces for the sultan and his kin; and the Medina, a quarter where court officials lived and worked.
Corner terrace house with Soho Square. c.1744-46 by Joseph Pearce, the interior fitted out with very fine plasterwork etc. for Richard Beckford, brother of the Alderman in 1754. Stock brick, slate roof. Plain rather old fashioned elevations in keeping with Soho Square. 3 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 5 windows wide and 4 window return to Soho Square. Entrance in 2nd bay from right has stone architrave with consoles carrying cornice. Recessed glazing bar sashes in stucco reveals under flat gauged arches, blind in chimney breast bay and to left on 2nd floor to Greek Street. Brick plat bands and sill bands, the 1st floor sill band of stone, brick parapet with coping. Wrought iron urn finialed area railings and stone obelisks flanking the steps to doorway. The interior finished in carved wood and moulded plaster is one of the best surviving examples in London of mid C18 Rococo decoration with pedimented ornamental chimneypieces, carved pedimented doorcases, stone staircase with wrought iron openwork balusters and plasterwork panels to 1st floor level of compartment, etc. ceilings, cornices etc. A chapel was added in the former stable yard and to Manette Street for the House of Charity by Joseph Clarke in 1862, stone built in a bold c.1300 Burges related style of Gothic, 2 bays with an east apse and pairs of apsed chapels off each side of the lofty narrow nave; marble facings and mosaic work; large rose window in west wall. EH Listing
“Harvest”. Plasterwork in the smoke-room of "The Vines" Public House, Lime Street, Liverpool. Still in place in 1992. Work arranged by Walter Gilbert in association with Louis Weingartner and the Bromsgrove Guild. Modelling by Louis Weingartner. Casting by The Bromsgrove Guild. Photo by Phillip Medhurst. Plasterwork 1908. Photo 1992.
Pargeting is the application of decorative patterns to plasterwork on houses, largely in East Anglia.
Elaborate plasterwork in the dining room of Kenmore, Fielding Lewis' 18th-Century Georgian mansion in Fredericksburg, VA.
Acklam Hall, Acklam, Middlesbrough
The Hustler of Acklam coat of arms - Argent, on a fess, azure, between two martletts, sable, three fleur-de-lis, or - which were granted in 1727 to Sir William Hustler.
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It is amazing how often one passes a corner without actually noticing certain details: this bay window in Pont Street SW1 I knew well, as I was passing it on the way to visiting some old friends. And suddenly, after the coctail party, in the drizzling rain at dusk I see this bit of plasterwork which practically replicates the architecture of the tree which grows nearby, so I clicked both mentally and physically: no flash and adjusted a fraction the exposure and here we are.
Note: This kind of plaster decoration attached to building's exteriors i smuch used on half-timber hoouses of East Anglia, but I never have seen it in London - did you?
it is called Pageting or pargetting (derived from the French, oh yes!, "parjeter")
The Queen' Head dates from the 16th Century, with 17th Century plasterwork still visible in the bar. The original stone was plastered over in some places and clad with stone in others; in 1922, gables were removed and mock black & white woodwork added in the style known as Brewers' Tudor. In 2005 it became a community pub, but today just one of the original group is running it.
During the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell stayed there several times. On one occasion, a Royalist attempted to assassinate him, but was pursued into the bar and shot dead.
Lanhydrock is the perfect country house and estate, with the feel of a wealthy but unpretentious family home. Follow in the footsteps of generations of the Robartes family, walking in the 17th-century Long Gallery among the rare book collection under the remarkable plasterwork ceiling. After a devastating fire in 1881 the house was refurbished in the high-Victorian style, with the latest mod cons. Boasting the best in country-house design and planning, the kitchens, nurseries and servants' quarters offer a thrilling glimpse into life 'below stairs', while the spacious dining room and bedrooms are truly and deeply elegant
20 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, campus of the Australian Catholic University Melbourne. Built 1903-1904. Plasterwork ceiling, detail, completed 1913.
www.acu.edu.au/about_acu/campuses/melbourne/history_of_me...
Hardwick Old Hall, Derbyshire, early C16 & 1587-90.
For Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury - Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608).
Grade l listed.
The house had two full scale great chambers and there are substantial remains of decorative plasterwork by Abraham Smith.
Hill Great Chamber.
Hardwick was home to Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608), one of the most formidable women of Elizabethan England. She was the matriarch of the Cavendish family, building Chatsworth with her second husband and returning to build the two great halls at Hardwick after her separation from her fourth husband the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.
The floor is paved with colored tiles, while the walls are covered 5 ft. (1.5 m) up from the ground with blue and yellow tiles with a border above and below.
The Alhambra tiles are remarkable in that they contain nearly all, if not all, of the seventeen mathematically possible wallpaper groups. This is a unique accomplishment in world architecture. M. C. Escher's visit in 1922 and study of the Moorish use of symmetries in the Alhambra tiles inspired his subsequent work on tessellation, which he called "regular divisions of the plane". Palacio de los Leones (Palace of the Lions).
Alhambra. Granada, Spain. 2015
You can find it in my hometown (Novara Italy) on a xviii century building - in via S. Gaudenzio. I like it
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
The Marble Hall
Entering the house through the great north portico on the piano nobile, one arrives at the marble hall designed to suggest the open courtyard or atrium of a Roman villa.
Twenty fluted alabaster columns with Corinthian capitals support the heavily decorated, high-coved cornice. The alabaster was from a local quarry and the columns were not fluted until a decade after they were installed.
Niches in the walls contain classical statuary - plaster copies of statues of gods and heroes that Curzon acquired in 1757. Above the niches are grisaille panels. In front of the statues are a set of painted benches designed by Robert Adam and made by John Linnell, customised with the Curzon arms.
The floor is of inlaid Italian Carrera marble and Hopton Stone and was laid in 1763.
Matthew Paine's original designs for this room intended it to be lit by conventional windows at the northern end, but Robert Adam, warming to the Roman theme, lit the whole from the roof through innovative glass skylights.
The decoration of the Hall was not completed until 1776/7. A palette of soft pinks and greens was devised for the ceiling incorporating plasterwork by Joseph Rose containing panels of classical military trophies.
Wall Paintings left to right:
Helen going to the Field accompanied by Paris
Meeting between Hector and Andromache with their Son Astyanax carried by a Nurse
Diana (Selene) riding her Chariot (from the Arch of Constantine)
Athene, driven by Hera, preparing to assist the Grecians and forbidden by Iris, sent from Zeus
The Judgement of Paris
The painted ceiling dates from c 1540 and there is painted plasterwork in the same room from a similar date.
Originally known as the House or Place of Ruthven. This is two C15th -C16th towers linked by a later C17th middle.
Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley stayed here in 1565 during the Chaseabout Raid. In 1582 it was the site of the Raid of Ruthven. In 1600 the estate passed to the Crown after the 3rd Earl of Gowrie was killed in the Gowrie Conspiracy. At this stage it was renamed Huntingtower. In 1643 it became the property of William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysar who sold it to the 2nd Earl of Tullibardine in 1663 and thereafter to the Duke of Atholl. It came under Historic Environment Scotland in 1912.
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/hunting...
Christmas displays at Sudbury are mainly done by volunteers.
The Great Staircase was installed in 1676. It was designed in a Baroque style by George Vernon the owner of the hall. The balustrade was carved by Edward Pierce and features a scrolling acanthus pattern. The plasterwork surrounding it was by James Pettifer and the painted panels within it by Louis Laguerre which were completed 20 years after the plasterwork. At the top on the newels are carved baskets of fruit which could be removed to allow for candelabras or lanterns.
George Vernon started building Sudbury in 1660. Much of the interior furniture was sold in 1919 to pay debts and the hall was transferred to the National Trust in 1967.
The plasterwork was done by Edward Gouge, and took 4 years to complete. The plasterwork ceilings in the Sessions House are reputed to be the best in the world!