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The front door of Elms is a fairly ponderous ironwork affair |
Around the lobby/entry area |
Trim and tapestries -- lots of veined marble |
The conservatory |
View out the back window onto the expansive lawn, with
the gardens and weeping beech at the far side. |
Sitting room (?) |
Ballroom, straight ahead from the main front door entrance and front
hall area.
Because really, it was all about the parties. |
Dining room |
Breakfast room, with Oriental lacquer panels |
Woodwork detail around lacquer |
The scaffold here is for a purpose: they've got one of the lacquer panels taken completely off the wall for restoration. There's a podcast available at the NM site describing some of the issues involved in successfully doing this. With all the panels obviously warping and cracking over time, restoration workers have to do the same to all of them. |
More random shots around the tour path.
Yes, the artwork around the property in general includes plenty of boobs. |
Up the grand staircase to the second floor... |
Various bedrooms |
Elevated style WC tank of the period |
Linen closet |
Into the servants' areas: all tiled in white, to help incoming light bounce around better and illuminate the spaces without needing a whole lot of additional electric lighting. |