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The Melbury Road Set
25 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 17-adult
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Availability:
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Additional information
Order number: 379
Important Aesthetic and Architectural Monuments
Most of the building plots in Melbury Road, built in the second half of the nineteenth century in Holland Park in west London, were bought by a group of artists who made this area the center of a new aesthetic élite. They moved in fashionable society, and in keeping with their social and financial position - artists were never held in higher esteem than in the closing decades of the nineteenth century - they built themselves expensive and modish studio houses which stood out from the common run of suburban architecture around them. The fantastic interior of Leighton House, built by Lord Leighton, with its Arab Hall decorated with tiles he had brought back from his travels and cooled by an indoor pool, and Tower House, designed as a Gothic castle by the architect William Burges for himself, stand out as important aesthetic and architectural monuments of the period.
Arab Hall, Leighton House, London
Credits -
Director Charles Cooper
Presenter/Writer
Colin Cunningham
Open University/BBC
