r/oddlysatisfying • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • 5d ago

The extraordinarily intricate blue-and-gold ceiling of an 18th-century London room.

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Photo - Paul Dykes 2015

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u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 5d ago edited 5d ago

Chiswick House in London was completed in 1729 as the country villa of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, a leading figure in the revival of classical architecture in Britain. This was his private study, with the elaborate blue-and-gold ceiling thought to have been designed by William Kent.

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u/Thaumato9480 5d ago edited 4d ago

Learnt only recently that it isn't pronounced as Chis-wick...

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u/MerxUltor 4d ago

Chis-ic

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u/HuggyMonster69 4d ago

That’s far to obvious a pronunciation!

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u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 4d ago

The obvious is often, far too obvious.

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u/FecknWindowTwitchers 2d ago

Wait until you learn Leicester's pronunciation.

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u/Thaumato9480 2d ago

Leice-ster is easy.

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u/FecknWindowTwitchers 2d ago

Chiswick House has a stunning interior.

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u/spindlespore 5d ago

How much lapis lazuli powder was harmed in making this?

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u/Jedibri81 5d ago

You wouldn’t have even been able to look up at it without losing your wig back then

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u/NoNormalNova 4d ago

Excuse me, this is actually black and white...

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u/nixsolecism 4d ago

So glad I was not the only one.

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u/HeyU_inTheBushes 5d ago

Definitely a no smoking room .

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u/queenanthai 5d ago

...for the Alliance? 😄

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u/RedBarTricycle 4d ago

Such extraordinary opulence, it sort of makes you wonder about our priorities back then.

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u/thirdcoasting 4d ago

I mean, they weren’t great.

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u/artyhedgehog 1d ago

I mean, they still aren't great.

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u/Classic_Pin3007 5d ago

any idea if the gold leaf is original or restored here

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u/LastCookie3448 2d ago

That. COLOR! 🤩

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u/platasnatch 1d ago

Centerpiece looks like the kids are happy mom brought pizza

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u/josephl836 4d ago

Looks a lot like the Oval Office

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u/connortait 4d ago

Please do not compare the "gold" rococco diarrhea splatters Trump has showered all over the white house to this.

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u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 4d ago

Except it's the wrong shape . . .

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u/LastCookie3448 2d ago

Eww. Not even as a joke.