Anglophilia

Shall we have a bit of Anglophilia this Monday morning? For all their lording and looting and plundering and enslaving, I must say, begrudgingly, the Brits knew how to spend their ill-gotten gains. (Now we know they are not so good with the spending these days, but in the 18th and 19th century...well).  Why just look at the splendid décor given birth by Robert Adam. The Scottish architect and designer created ostentatious homes and made ceiling moldings his calling card---with not a little thought given over to details. Check out these moldings!

 

Also the architecture was brilliant too.

Adams also dabbled in furniture design.

 The style is neo-classical. Every single bit of it looks like monuments to wealth, power and excess. You will have seen many rooms like Adam's in Architectural Digest, House and Garden and Traditional Home. It just goes to show that there is nothing new under the sun. You know what I mean: plunder lands near and far, build ginormous, ostentatious houses in the neo-classical style, lather, rinse, repeat!

 

 

Pictures from Pinterest

 

I promise, my cynicism will give way to lighter fare tomorrow. At least, I hope.