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Middle-class drawing room in Blackheath, London, 1841, painted by James Holland. In 18th-century London, the royal morning receptions that the French called levées were called "drawing rooms", with the sense originally that the privileged members of court would gather in the drawing room outside the king's bedroom, where he would make his first formal public appearance of the day.
It was originally built around 1790 for John Pinney, a wealthy sugar merchant and slave plantation owner, and is now furnished and displayed as a typical late 18th century town house. The period house museum includes a drawing room, eating room, study, kitchen, laundry and housekeeper's room.
The Gold Drawing Room was designed by Alexander Briullov in 1841. Like the adjoining The White Hall, it is the ceremonial part of Alexander II's apartments. The Throne Room of the Munich Residenz [2] was the model for the design of The Gold Drawing Room. All walls and pylons were covered with fine ornaments and covered with gilding. A low panel ...
The flanking pavilions are agricultural buildings not part of the villa. In the 18th century, the connecting colonnades evolved as enfilades of rooms while the pavilions often became self-contained wings or blocks – a common feature of 18th century Palladianism. Andrea Palladio was born in Padua in 1508, the son of a stonemason. [2]
From the mid-18th century, Georgian styles were assimilated into an architectural vernacular that became part and parcel of the training of every architect, designer, builder, carpenter, mason and plasterer, from Edinburgh to Maryland. [7]
The meaning of "cabinet" began to be extended to the contents of the cabinet; [9] thus we see the 16th-century cabinet of curiosities, often combined with a library. The sense of cabinet as a piece of furniture is actually older in English than the meaning as a room, but originally meant more a strong-box or jewel-chest than a display-case. [10]
The earliest known use of the noun drawing room is in the mid-1600s, with the earliest evidence of drawing room appearing in 1635, from a Victorian-era memoir titled Steward's Household Accounts.
Central-passage house evolved primarily in colonial Maryland and Virginia from the hall and parlor house, beginning to appear in greater numbers by about 1700. [1] [2] It partially developed as greater economic security and developing social conventions transformed the reality of the American landscape, but it was also heavily influenced by its formal architectural relatives, the Palladian and ...