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It was designed and built from 1926–1929 by the Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray and the French/Romanian Architect Jean Badovici. [1] L-shaped and flat-roofed with floor-to-ceiling windows and a spiral stairway to the guest room, E-1027 was both open and compact. [ 2 ]
The choice of paint color on the walls in Victorian homes was said to be based on the use of the room. Hallways that were in the entry hall and the stair halls were painted a somber gray so as not to compete with the surrounding rooms. Most people marbleized the walls or the woodwork.
No sooner than one section of the steps was 'finished', Selarón started work on another section, constantly changing it so that it was an ever-evolving piece of art. Selarón considered the work as "never complete" [ 2 ] and claimed that "This crazy and unique dream will only end on the day of my death".
Cadw considers the Grand Staircase, "in many ways the greatest architectural achievement at Penrhyn." [12] It took over ten years to construct, [12] rises the full height of the house culminating in a lantern, its only illumination, and is built of a variety of grey stones decorated with "an orgy of fantastic carving". [89]
He then replaced Parish's gold cloth on the table with a blue velvet covering with a long gold fringe. The fabrics for the walls, valance, drapes, and tablecloth were all produced by Scalamandré. [24] To finish unifying the scheme of the Blue Room, Boudin had the dado rail and the cornice molding painted gold and white. [25]
Born in Langenstein, Hesse, Germany, Pabst immigrated to the U.S. in 1849 and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he would make his professional career.The excellence of his craftsmanship elevated him above his peers, as did the strongly architectonic (building-like) quality of his furniture designs—often massively scaled, with columns, pilasters, rounded and Gothic arches, bold ...
945 Madison Avenue, also known as the Breuer Building, is a museum building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.The Marcel Breuer-designed structure was built to house the Whitney Museum of American Art; it subsequently held a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and from 2021 to March 2024 was the temporary quarters of the Frick Collection while the Henry Clay Frick House ...
The staircase itself has risers with scallop designs, as well as a handrail supported by narrow spindles. [308] It is interrupted by two landings where the stair turns 90 degrees. [ 310 ] At some point in the 19th century, there was a doorway separating the stairs from the main hall; this doorway was removed "some years" prior to 1916. [ 299 ]