Visiting The Breakers built by Cornelius Vanderbilt requires that you must look up.
The Great Hall, your first exposure to grandeur is 50 ft x 50 ft x 50 ft. The ceiling is well decorated including a painting of the sky.
Here's looking up under a chandelier.
The skylight on the ceiling of the 2nd floor Gallery.
The ceiling on the second floor Loggia is painted to resemble canopies stretched over the sky.
Below is the library ceiling - coffered.
The Dining Room
Ceiling of the Music Room.
Below the ceiling the the Billiards Room with a chandelier so weighty it's tied into the structure of the house.
I believe below is the Morning Room.
My neck is stiff from looking up!
Of course it was all for show. None of the bedrooms had ceilings decorated like this.
It certainly is grand, but I take it that he had more money than me! One wonders how many of his fellow Americans at the time were happy to just have a roof that kept the rain out.
ReplyDelete...always remember to look up.
ReplyDeleteEven when walking downtown, it’s a good idea to look up and see the dates and names of older buildings.
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ReplyDeleteSuperb ceilings...so glad you could photograph them all...even if you got a crick in your neck. Thanks. Have a happy Easter weekend!
ReplyDeleteWow! A perfect tour might involve lying flat on a gurney and being pushed from room to room.
ReplyDeleteThose ceilings are exceptionally grand. Your neck must have had a crick in it by the time you had finished.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the high level tour! If I look up too long these days, I get a tad dizzy. No light bulb changes for me on a ladder! They're all beautiful. Linda in Kansas
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