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Telling Tales – A Family Festival of Stories
Sunday, September 20, 2009
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Two Temple Place
John Loughborough Pearson, 1895
Completed in 1895, Two Temple Place is a dazzling neo-Gothic gem on the Victoria Embankment, designed by gothic revivalist architect, John Loughborough Pearson, & commissioned by & built for William Waldorf Astor, as his estate office.
Two Temple Place was commissioned in the early 1890s by one of the richest men in the world, the American William Waldorf Astor, to be his London estate office. Designed by the famous gothic revivalist architect, John Loughborough Pearson, it is an extraordinary celebration of late-Victorian design and craftsmanship.
Astor was born in New York City in 1848 as the only child of John Jacob Astor III and Charlotte Augusta Gibbes. Only two generations earlier, his great grandfather, John Jacob Astor I, had left the village of Walldorf, near Heidelberg in South West Germany, to find a future for himself across the Atlantic. He made massive profits through fur trading and a vast shipping empire, later he putting that money into property on Manhattan Island, earning the title the ‘Landlord of New York’.
Only three generations of property development later, the William Waldorf Astor was part of one of the richest ever dynasties in US history.
But Astor’s relationship saw America as ‘no fit place for a gentleman.
In 1890 he emigrated to England, after a failed electoral campaign, repeated threats of kidnap, and press who reviled him as a slumlord. He had soon commissioned for the construction of this lavish building in central London. Through it we get an insight into Astor’s own interests and aspirations. He handed his architect, the acclaimed John Loughborough Pearson, an unlimited budget for Two Temple Place and the result reads like a short biography of Astor, created for him by some of greatest craftsmen of the time.
The exterior of the building is made of Portland stone and carved with gargoyles and grotesque figures.
The gilded weather vane crafted by J. Starkie Gardner sails above the parapets – intended to be a representation of Christopher Columbus' ship the Santa Maria.
Before the front door stand two bronze lamp standards, modelled by William Silver Frith, which were at one time exhibited at the Royal Academy. Each is crowned by a miniature ship and decorated with androgynous putti who represented the marvels of electrical illumination and the latest technology - the telephone.
The floor of the Staircase Hall is of inlaid semi-precious stones: marble, porphyry, onyx and jasper, in the Cosmati style, as seen at Westminster Abbey.
The paneling in this space is British oak and the staircase mahogany. The carved figures represent the chief characters from William Waldorf Astor’s favourite book – Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan, Madame Bonacieux, Aramis, Milady de Winter, Bazin, Athos and Porthos.
The arcade surrounding the Gallery on the first floor has ten columns of irreplaceable solid ebony. On six of these stand carved characters from three American novels: Uncas, the last Mohican and The Pathfinder from James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales; Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter; Rip van Winkle and his daughter, Judith Gardenier, from Washington Irving’s Knickerbocker Tales.
Above these figures are four oak panel friezes in high relief by Thomas Nicholls, portraying memorable scenes from Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth.
The Library of Astor's is designed as a wholly private retreat. It is paneled in satinwood, a fashionable lighter wood chosen because it could be polished to help reflect light into the room, which during Astor's time was overshadowed by the nearby Middle Temple Library.
The mahogany door is elegantly adorned with cupid figures imitating Renaissance grotesques. Above door and bookcases are a number of panels modeled in delicate low relief by William S Frith. Between them are finely carved putto figures representing the Arts and Sciences - each carrying scientific and musical instruments.
This was William Waldorf Astor’s office, which VIP visitors entered through a central carved-mahogany door. The inside of this door has nine decorative panels in silver-gilt by Sir George Frampton, depicting nine heroines of the Arthurian Legend.
The hammer-beam ceiling is richly carved in Spanish mahogany and the wall panels are pencil-cedar, used for its apparently calming sent.
The gilded frieze includes 54 characters from history and literature, all chosen by Astor himself. Among them are Pocahontas, Machiavelli, Bismarck, Anne Boleyn and Marie Antoinette.
Above this are twelve carved figures which represent characters from Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, including Robin Hood, Maid Marian, Gurth, Wamba and Friar Tuck. All carved by Nathaniel Hitch, as most of the room. Hitch reluctantly gilded these figures on Astor's request, as he struggled to see them due to his short-sightedness.
[*Open House Festival]
Taken during Open House Festival 2024
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"Williwaw Tales" by Rhonda Walter-Frojen is on display in the Dickinson State University Art Gallery until January 30, 2009.
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Hiram College Theater proudly presents
"Collected Grimm Tales"
Friday, Oct. 23 at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. Renner Theater Frohring Performing Arts Building
Photo Kasey Samuel Adams
Kasey Samuel Adams Photographer
I found this fairy, riding the plumes of smoke from some burning incense, so I asked her for a photo...
In the vast land of a kingdom made of continents and countless archipelagoes, inhabitants work to advance shipbuilding and sailing technologies, and climate varies greatly ranging from severe winters to everlasting summers.
There, Velvet's life took a complete turn after a certain incident that woke her up three years ago. She is becoming an entity that will greatly shock the world.
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Namco's Tales of franchise continues in this new chapter in the RPG saga. Players will delve into a grand storyline and discover the “zest” of adventure with new characters, magical lands and great gameplay in Tales of Tales of Zestiria.
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While going through some shops, it caught my eye.. and I too lost in there eye :-)
True Duck Tales! :-)
Introducing the country's highest authorities dedicated to the art of getting you all kinds of messed up.
Namco's Tales of franchise continues in this new chapter in the RPG saga. Players will delve into a grand storyline and discover the “zest” of adventure with new characters, magical lands and great gameplay in Tales of Tales of Zestiria.
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A Bolero style Necklace with a Vintage Rhinestones, fresh water pearls and a Gorgeous old worn brass and rhinestone carriage charm. The Faerie Tale Continues...
I considered purchasing this $5. (- 20%) shell to make a horn but I was unsure if it could sound a good note being such a short distance from the mouthpiece (which I would have to drill) to the big bell.
Namco's Tales of franchise continues in this new chapter in the RPG saga. Players will delve into a grand storyline and discover the “zest” of adventure with new characters, magical lands and great gameplay in Tales of Tales of Zestiria.
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