Sunday, December 09, 2012

Photo of the Day

The Peacock Room
Freer Gallery - Washington, DC

The Peacock Room was once the dining room in the London home of Frederick R. Leyland, a wealthy shipowner from Liverpool, England. It was originally designed by a gifted interior architect named Thomas Jeckyll. To display Leyland's prized collection of Chinese porcelain to best advantage, Jeckyll constructed a lattice of intricately carved shelving and hung antique gilded leather on the walls. A painting by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) called La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine — or The Princess from the Land of Porcelain — occupied a place of honor above the fireplace.




2 comments:

  1. I love it!!

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  2. I'm Paul D'Amico, Architectural Designer from Period Design and I own a tiled fireplace grate by Thomas Jeckyll. He was an architect/designer of the aesthetic movement. The Victoria&Albert Museum featured his work in a recent exhibition the "Cult of Beauty". I compliment and thank Alex Feldstein for posting such a beautiful example of Jeckyll's work.

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