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Buildings where the building is the reason to go: the inside-out, the Art Deco, the concrete, and the ones that make no sense at all until somebody explains them.
A painter's studio-house in Holland Park with a domed Arab Hall of Damascus tiles.
HousesVictorian & EdwardianYou can go inside
Frederic Leighton built it from 1866 with George Aitchison and kept adding for thirty years, and it was never meant to be a home in the ordinary sense - there is one modest bedroom and an enormous north-lit studio, because the house was a machine for painting in and for being seen in. The Arab Hall was added in 1877 to hold the sixteenth and seventeenth-century tiles Leighton had brought back from Damascus, and it is a domed room with a fountain in the floor, gilt mosaic by Walter Crane and a wooden screen from Cairo. The rest is deep colour and dark wood. It is the most complete Victorian artist's house anywhere in Britain.
Step-free access
| Monday | 10:00 – 17:30 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 10:00 – 17:30 |
| Thursday | 10:00 – 17:30 |
| Friday | 10:00 – 17:30 |
| Saturday | 10:00 – 17:30 |
| Sunday | 10:00 – 17:30 |
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