I’m fascinated by the idea of private space and the extent that studies have remained unchanged over the last 500 years. I found this image of Andrew Carnegie’s study, completed in 1901. Note the paintings around the room and the bust on the filing case. And the dinosaur too! If you are in New York, come to the Cooper-Hewitt gift shop and walk around the inner room of the shop which is what is left of the study in the current incarnation of the Carnegie mansion. The paintings and the woodwork are all that remain.
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I’ve always imagined that whenever it is I finally have my own house with rooms to spare, I’d have a room dedicated just to displaying photographs, floor to ceiling all in identical black frames. Flipping through a book on wallpaper in interior decoration I found this image from 1762 the Castletown House, County Kildare: bingo! This room was created by Louisa Connolly over the course of her life — each print was individual and pasted to the wall with an accompanying decorative border to achieve this effect.
