The dining room fireplace is made with two types of marble. A painting of an urn, filled with flowers and resting on marble that matches the fireplace, is embedded in the wall above. The ceiling fixture is one of the first Wedgewood fixtures to be wired for electricity; it may be older than the house.
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A short hallway paneled with mirrors, modeled after the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, leads into the morning room. The floor is Italian marble, with a marble fountain embedded in a corner. Inlaid in the walls are canvas panels with oil paintings, credited to G. Remidas from 1918- years before the house was built. Another fine crystal chandelier, either French or Italian completes the room
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The windows in the Morning Room look out upon the walled English gardens and the goldfish pond. |
Upstairs is the Spanish room, which, with its concrete base and massive fireplace, could only be supported by the Estate's steel-beam construction. The elements of the room, such as the wood-carved figurines or the stained-glass windows, all of which have been imported, relate to the story of Don Quixote. The ceiling is meant to suggest the overturned hull of a ship; the floor is covered with imported terracotta tiles.
The free-standing fireplace is decorated with stone-carved figures above the hearth, a coat of arms on the hood, and imported Andalusian tiles on the base. Wrought-iron grates on either side of the fireplace hide radiators. The iron lighting fixtures replicate the medieval Spanish style, even down to the spiked ball hanging on the bottom of each, which could be hurled at an intruder in an emergency. A short hall contains two nooks designed for lighted statues, which were very much in vogue in the 1920s. |
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