St Paul's Studios Update
An update on my postal service lastly week St. Paul's Studios on the Talgarth Road.
My postal service on Facebook drew this comment from Dennis Spicer - which answers unopen to of the comments virtually noise.
These are:
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| St Paul's Studios beingness sold 'off plan' (right click as well as opened upward inwards a novel tab to run across a larger image) |
I used to alive real close these as well as got to know Alan Day when he came to my life drawing classes at Hammersmith Adult Education Centre. He was a designer as well as lived inwards the tertiary ane from the left inwards the photo. He had restored the front end room every bit it would accept been for a Victorian gentleman artist, including a bookshelf amongst a total gear upward of The Yellow Book, the hallway was similarly restored as well as the other set down flooring room was his bedroom,and the large studio room was his pattern studio. He had a modern steel as well as chrome vogue kitchen inwards the basement as well as the room side yesteryear side to it was his sister's bedroom. I think the lack of racket inwards the house, due to a form of Victorian double glazing system.During the summertime pause from the Adult Education classes he invited unopen to of us to accept a life drawing session inwards the studio, in all likelihood the lastly fourth dimension the studio was used for its master purpose! He would oft host visiting parties from both the Victorian as well as Edwardian Societies as well as the front end room was used every bit a cinema onset several occasions, notably both Merchant/ Ivory films Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Room With Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 View as well as Howard's End. He sadly died unopen to years agone as well as the contents were pose upward for auction. Have flora 2 sites showing pictures of the interior every bit I think them.
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| The studio at #3 inwards utilisation every bit a studio |
- Contents of St Paul’s Studios sold at auction
- an weblog yesteryear the gentleman who used to alive at No 2, St Paul's Studios called (aptly!) Architectural Splendour on the Talgarth Road - it's URL is https://rememberthewindow.wordpress.com
- Have it your way… relates to the gentleman whose contents were sold inwards the auction sale referenced above
- Colet House- the ninth Studio - which is the menage side yesteryear side door - which has a HUGE studio
It has 2 spacious set down flooring studios as well as an exceptionally large studio on the start flooring – 10.5 metres yesteryear 22.5 metres (35ft x 75ft), comfortably long plenty for a cricket pitch.
- An Arts & Craft Epicentre which references other role artists' studios built inwards the area
- A House Portrait which contains a rather prissy drawing of ane of the studios yesteryear a chap called Liam Wales who is an architectuiral illustrator
- The Studios’ First Sales Particulars - interesting to run across the master layout unchanged yesteryear the occupants - as well as that the whole of the First Floor was seen every bit a studio space
- and finally, it's interesting to run across that rather famous people accept too lusted afterward these studios - see Sir Roy Strong’s Dream Home (Sir Roy Strong is a quondam Director of the National Portrait Gallery as well as thus the Victoria as well as Albert Museum)
By the agency - create accept a await at the paintings on Dennis Spicer's website - they're delightful!
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