Interiors

[greatgrandma]

House of Delegates - Capitol, Williamsburg VA in 1963

 

[fotoi]

Rovinj, Croatia.

 

[greatgrandma]

Adderley house---George and Olivia Adderley were Bahamians who sailed to the Keys in the 1890s. After they lived in the upper keys for several years, they purchased 32 acres at what is now known as Crane Point. The house, which George built himself, is made of Tabby, a concrete like material made of burned conch and other shells mixed with water and sand. It is a classic Bahamian style. Note the shutters which open from the bottom to keep the window shaded from the sun.

Bedroom in Adderley house

The kitchen was in a separate building at Adderley house

Inside kitchen

Their house is now on the grounds of the Marathon Museum

 

[fotoi]

Rovinj, Croatia.

 

[LtDave]

the furnace room in Toronto's Casa Loma.

not really a Castle in the grand European sense but the closest thing we have to me.

fully restored and open for tours.

 

[fotoi]

Sedona, Arizona.

 

[greatgrandma]

Peter the Great's Little Palace

Russian imitation of Oriental lacquer

dining table


Peter and Catherine would come out here to relax by themselves with just some close friends - without a lot of servants. She even did the cooking. The tsar himself chose the location, perched right on the Gulf of Finland. Besides planning the inner layout and much of the interior decor, Peter also came up with the name for the palace — Monplaisir (meaning "my pleasure").

Dutch-tiled pantry where Catherine would cook

The palace was built between 1714 and 1723 by Andreas Schluter, Johann Friedrich Braunstein, Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Le Blond and Nicola Michetti. The exhibits include, Chinese porcelain, Dutch faience, Russian glass and eighteenth-century cooking appliances. This is a small palace - other than the two wings, there was a sitting room, dining room, kitchen and butlers pantry, bedroom and study.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

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Peter the Great's Little Palace


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Russian imitation of Oriental lacquer

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dining table


Peter and Catherine would come out here to relax by themselves with just some close friends - without a lot of servants. She even did the cooking. The tsar himself chose the location, perched right on the Gulf of Finland. Besides planning the inner layout and much of the interior decor, Peter also came up with the name for the palace — Monplaisir (meaning "my pleasure").

Dutch-tiled pantry where Catherine would cook

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The palace was built between 1714 and 1723 by Andreas Schluter, Johann Friedrich Braunstein, Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Le Blond and Nicola Michetti. The exhibits include, Chinese porcelain, Dutch faience, Russian glass and eighteenth-century cooking appliances. This is a small palace - other than the two wings, there was a sitting room, dining room, kitchen and butlers pantry, bedroom and study.

Not surprised about the Dutch "Delft's blue" tiles. Czar Peter the Great worked in Amsterdam for 4 months, basically as an apprentice at the VOC, the Dutch East India Company as he wanted to learn the profession of ship carpenter here to be able to lead the construction of a new fleet in Russia. He worked on a ship that was especially set up for him at the VOC shipyard. The city still remembers him. I e.g. lived in the Czaar Peterstraat as a student.

 

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Natural History Museum, London.