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curiouswombatA couple of weekends ago D-d visited Victor Hugo's house on Guernsey. It is only open for the summer season, and it was the last day of opening, so she braved heavy rain as she had been told it was well worth the visit.
All I can say about it is that she thought the people who had told her that were absolutely right - and when I saw the pictures I was quite envious.
I don't think these need any explanations - and to be honest I don't know all the answers as it wasn't me that went - but you can find out a little more here - but in the meantime all I can say is he clearly loved tiles, wood, gilding and red...
All I can say about it is that she thought the people who had told her that were absolutely right - and when I saw the pictures I was quite envious.
I don't think these need any explanations - and to be honest I don't know all the answers as it wasn't me that went - but you can find out a little more here - but in the meantime all I can say is he clearly loved tiles, wood, gilding and red...
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Date: 10/10/2013 10:32 pm (UTC)It is gloriously OTT isn't it?
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Date: 11/10/2013 02:33 am (UTC)Is that a Delft fire place?
D.D. really gets around doesn't she!
By the way has S2C's present shown up yet, or is it still in transit?
Huggs,
Lynda
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Date: 11/10/2013 07:27 am (UTC)D-d's great love, and her first degree subject, is history - so put her somewhere new and she will spend a lot of her spare time exploring the history of the place.
And no - the missing gift is, sadly, still missing.
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Date: 11/10/2013 04:19 pm (UTC)Still very much OTT but I did like his smoking/billiards room, though I could see a nice, big screen T.V. fitting in very well!
Lynda
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Date: 11/10/2013 04:00 am (UTC)That looks like a lot of fun to explore.
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Date: 11/10/2013 07:28 am (UTC)She said it was great fun and she was so glad she got there before it closed for the winter.
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Date: 11/10/2013 07:39 am (UTC)btw - huge thanks for the hint about The Wallace Collection - stunning.
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Date: 11/10/2013 12:17 pm (UTC)I'm so glad that you liked the Wallace Collection - it's high on my list of good places to visit.
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Date: 11/10/2013 11:38 am (UTC)I also see some coppery tiles that look like they may be either from or inspired by ceramic made on the east coast of Spain.
And it looks like he raided old churches for misericord carvings. LOL
That's quite a place, a visual treat but I'm not sure I could live there comfortably...too much is breakable!
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Date: 11/10/2013 12:59 pm (UTC)I'm glad D-d managed to go. The RG and I finally got to William Morris's house, Kelmscott Manor, deep in the Cotswold countryside after several years of trying - that, similarly, is only open two days a week, only a few months of the year, and only really reachable by car, so it took a lot of planning to do it.
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Date: 11/10/2013 03:38 pm (UTC)I think you should suggest to the RG, at some time that he has annoyed you, that you have found your interior style icon...
I would like to see William Morris's house. I think I might live better with his style.
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Date: 11/10/2013 04:49 pm (UTC)There is a beautiful four-poster bed, its hangings embroidered by Morris's wife with a poem (http://www.burrows.com/founders/bed.html) that he wrote celebrating the said bed! I've been contemplating for some time working the poem into an Ithilien Tale, as I could just imagine Legolas singing it to Rowanna...
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Date: 11/10/2013 06:43 pm (UTC)Oh you so should! It would work perfectly with only a tiny tweak of river.
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Date: 11/10/2013 01:49 pm (UTC)Love the tiles, but all the rest of the house would drive me madly out, screaming, within a few hours of being closeted up with it. Most certainly OTT in so many, many ways.
Great pics. Thank you so very much for sharing with us.
- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 11/10/2013 03:51 pm (UTC)But then I would expect someone who wrote so much that was so popular to make quite a bit in those days - writers were the equivalent of big film producers in their day, I would guess, or even of the stars of the films - and Peter Jackson or Steven Spielberg aren't short of a penny or two...
I'm not sure about the tiled rooms - I think it would be like living in a Victorian public convenience!
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Date: 12/10/2013 10:36 pm (UTC)The tiles are magnificent!
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