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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Kinmel Hall, drawing no. 133, revised plan for entrance hall is a 10 by William Eden Nesfield, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing is a revised plan for the entrance hall of Kinmel Hall, a grand country house. The artist, William Eden Nesfield, used drawing to rework an old Greek Revival house into something much fancier. Nesfield was brought in to upgrade the whole estate for its owner, Hugh Robert Hughes. The renovation turned a plain house into a much larger, more impressive building. Some say the final place has 365 windows and 52 bedrooms—one for each day and week of the year. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more.
The drawing presents a revised floor plan for the entrance hall of Kinmel Hall, a country house near Abergele in north Wales, redesigned by William Eden Nesfield between 1871 and 1876 for Hugh Robert Hughes. The plan includes the ground floor rooms labeled breakfast room, smoking and billiard room, business room, and Mr. Hughes' room. Kinmel Hall was created by expanding an earlier Greek Revival house, incorporating elements inspired by Hampton Court Palace and the Queen Anne style, such as red brick, stone window surrounds, and sunflower motifs. The house, later repurposed as a spa,…
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William Eden Nesfield was an English architect. Like his some-time partner, Richard Norman Shaw, he designed several houses in Britain in the revived 'Old English' and 'Queen Anne' styles during the 1860s and 1870s. He…
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