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aranazo · 6 months

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Georgian London by John Summerson with a cover by Herbert Spencer.

#books #vintage books #penguin books #pelicans #georgian london #architecture #john summerson #herbert spencer #1968 #60s

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 4 months

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Christmas & Birthday Book Haul

WARNING: I’VE INCLUDED FOUL HEART HUNTSMAN BY CHLOE GONG IN THIS POST. BECAUSE OF THIS THERE ARE SPOILERS FOR THE THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS DUOLOGY AND FOUL LADY FORTUNE IN THE BLURB I’VE GIVEN, As always I’ve combined these two lists because my birthday is two days after Christmas. They are in no particular order. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh Salama Kassab is a pharmacy…

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hometoursandotherstuff · 2 years

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Let’s tour the most mysterious house in London. After being uninhabited for over a century Tim, a museum director, and Todd, a landscaper, bought the huge Georgian mansion from the Spitalfields Trust for only £250,000. It is now the most superbly restored, privately owned Georgian house in the country.

Over three centuries, the house had been extensively altered. It was divided up into smaller lodgings and two shops were built in the old front garden. Most of the property became storage for the shops when Tim & Todd came along.

Guided by historic documentation and surviving evidence, the shops were demolished, revealing the house surprisingly intact, and this is what it looked like when they restoring it.

Philippe Debeerst, the photographer, described it as spellbinding. Hieroglyphics lined the entrance hall wall.

Have you ever seen a fireplace like this? I can’t believe they were able to light it- after all these years, it still worked.

Both Tim and Todd are avid collectors.

They love having the opportunity to expand their collections.

This restored sitting room looks cozy.

Their dining room.

Look at how cool the old kitchen is.

This is an interesting skeleton and it even has an egg.

Really, I think the stores were a good thing- the house was pretty well-preserved behind them.

Can you believe all their stuff?

They’ve got the bathrooms up and running (and decorated).

They also have a large religious collection.

I wonder if these heads came with the place.

This bedroom and bath turned out beautifully.

This looks like a basement room.

Todd working on the garden.

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#mysterious georgian mansion london #historic mansion restoration london

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artschoolglasses · 3 months

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London Head Dresses, published 1804

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

#London head dresses #fashion #fashion history #hat #hats #bonnet #bonnets #fashion plate #print #1804 #1800s #19th century #regency #georgian

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vox-anglosphere · 1 year

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Covent Garden has been busy with Christmas shoppers since 1831

#Covent Garden #Nine Elms #London #Christmas shopping #Inigo Jones #Christmas trees #Georgian architecture #1831

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cyhsal · 9 months

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Mirror Image 🪞🖼️

A little photo study as I work on some bigger pieces!

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#artists on tumblr #illustration #architecture #architecture illustration #john summerson #john soane #soane museum #london #museums #georgian architecture #academia aesthetic #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #procreate #digital illustration #digital art #cyhsal

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fashionbooksmilano · 5 months

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Crown to Couture

The Magazine

Historical Royal Palaces, London 2023, 144 pages, 21x30cm, ISBN 9781873993514

euro 60,00

email if you want to buy [email protected]

Enjoy reading through 144 pages packed to the brim with stunning pictures and fascinating articles about fashion, style and celebrity from the Georgian court and the red carpet. This exclusive Historic Royal Palaces publication accompanies the glamorous 'Crown to Couture' exhibition at Kensington Palace 05 April - 31 October 2023.

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#Crown to Couture #fashion exhibition catalogue #Kensington Palace London 2023 #Historical Royal Palace #Georgian court #fashion style celebrity #fashion books #fashionbooksmilano

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dubmill · 2 years

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Mecklenburgh Square, London; 9.7.2021

#photography #photographers on tumblr #dubmill #London #Bloomsbury #Mecklenburgh Square #England #UK #Britain #architecture #Georgian #Regency #classical #original photography #original photograph #walk #Streatham to Harringay #2021 #09072021

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kasiabobula · 4 months

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#fiona de lys #portrait #cottage #london cottage #rustic #georgian #interiors #colour #green #green wall #antique

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aneverydaything · 2 years

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Day 1525, 26 August 2022

#Charlton Place #georgian #period #houses #crescent #windows #doors #railings #Islington #angel #London #England #UK

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ofpd · 1 year

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why is it that if i talk to someone under 40 from any part of the us or canada they'll likely have (or at least easily code-switch to) a generic californian accent but the uk is so small and yet people from different regions and socioeconomic backgrounds can have such distinct accents

#like my georgian (the us state) cousins and texan roommate have barely noticeable southern accents?#people do sometimes talk in distinct accents even young ppl but idk it seems way more pronounced in the uk #txt #like the most noticeably different accent than “standard” english that i hear regularly here is aave #maybe sociolects are more persistent than dialects? hence why there r so many london accents #but idk if that would make sense #oh i also have texan cousins i just haven't seen them in a while

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jolly-good-simming · 2 years

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19-20 Edith Grove

This beautiful 3 bedroom, 4 bath Georgian Townhouse is based on one I saw in London's Chelsea neighbourhood. Split over 4 floors, The interior combines modern and farmhouse. Whilst I did a lot of decorating, I have left some spaces for more to be added. I have also left the other half of this semi-detached home empty, it could be used to expand the home, or create a purely decorative second home.

I haven't yet compiled a full list of cc used, but many thanks to: @felixandresims, @mincts4, @pinkbox-anye, @littledica, @wondymoondesign, @sims4luxury, @sundays-sims, @peacemaker-ic, #severinka, @syboubou, @lorysims, @irinaseverinka @pierisim and many, many more that I can't think of at the moment!

In addition, a shoutout to the wonderful #mattrobot for the wonderful artwork he creates that I used to create my FIRST EVER pieces of CC, the movie posters (in the movie room)!

This is probably my dream home, if I could actually afford to live in London! Let me know what you think!

#the sims 4 #the sims cc #sims4 #ts4 #build mode #s4cc #sims 4 cc #sims4cc #british #london #chelsea #townhouse #georgian #londonarchitecture #english #londoncalling

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sheiruki-takes-photos · 8 months

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Somerset House On A Rainy Day, London, England, United Kingdom, 2019

#photography #photo #original photography on tumblr #original photographers #city photography #somerset house #london #georgian era #palace #18th century #britain #United Kingdom #canon #19th century #victorian era #construction time stretched across bothtime periods #architecture #fountain

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londiniumlundene · 2 years

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Dennis Severs’ House

Not quite a museum, historic house, or art gallery, the house at 18 Folgate Street in Spitalfields is a bit of all three, yet at the same time quite undefinable and unique; the closest description is perhaps installation art, but even that fails to capture something that really has to be experienced to gain a full appreciation.

American artist Dennis Severs purchased the house in the late 1970s, at a time when Spitalfields was an unfashionable area, and the 10-room 18th Century property was relatively inexpensive. Severs reputedly moved in with a candle, a chamber pot, and a bedroll, and set about living in the house as he imagined its original inhabitants would have done. Sleeping in every room, he gradually began to give life to the imaginary Jervis family, Huguenot silk-weavers whose lives and fortunes formed the basis of the “still life drama” that visitors to the house would be able to explore.

Severs furnished each room with furniture, fittings and homeware purchased from local antique shops, creating a series of rooms each evoking a different period spanning the years 1724 to 1914, following the Jervis family from a prosperous Georgian era, through to the tough times of the Victorian age. The experience is more than just antiques though, as each room is filled with appropriate food and drink (put out fresh every day, one assumes), including half-eaten boiled eggs and toast, and glasses of various wines; fires and candles light the rooms at dusk and night, and in dark corners unpleasantly full chamber pots and mouldering items can be found lurking.

Accompanying these, sounds from inside and outside can be caught – whispered conversations from the house’s inhabitants, horses on the street, and distant tolling church bells. It all adds up to give the impression that the family have just left each room, with the visitor stepping into each scene. Guests are asked to remain silent during their visits, something Dennis Severs was known to enforce quite strictly before his death in 1999. As he said: “You either see it or you don’t”, and it would be hard to lose yourself in the experience listening to the chatter of other visitors…