Bedrooms

SOURCE: British Architect, vol. XXI, 1884 June 20, after p. 302

NOTES: This Corporation of London housing complex was built on the northern edge of the City of London, an area devastated by bombing during World War II. It was to provide council housing at subsidised rents for the many people who serviced the offices in the City, particularly caretakers, secretaries and police officers, hence the emphasis was on one bedroom flats. The estate was further enlarged to the west and completed in 1962.

NOTES: Eckart Muthesius was responsible for the general design of the room. He also designed the lighting fixtures above the bed and the floor lamp; the bed was designed by Louis Sognot and Charlotte Alix, the round glass and metal table by Djo-Bougeois and the rugs by Ivan da Silva Bruhns.

NOTES: Eckart Muthesius was responsible for the general design of the room and for the dressing table while the rug was designed by Ivan da Silva Bruhns.

NOTES: Eckart Muthesius was responsible for the general design of the room. He also designed the the floor lamp; the mirror and swivel chair wre designed by Louis Sognot and Charlotte Alix, the round glass and metal table by Djo-Bougeois and the rugs by Ivan da Silva Bruhns.

NOTES: Richard Cassels, a German architect living in Ireland, was engaged by John Browne, later the first Earl of Altamont, in 1732 to design the present east facade as part of a classical house laid out around the core of the earlier fortified house, O' Malley Castle. The house was further extended in the 1770s, but the two wings at the back of house were never completed. The artificial lake was created by the second Earl of Altamont (d.1780).