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Having a Stained Glass Ball!

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As you all know, I love sparkle.  Color. Light and windows and bling. I try and keep it to a minimum in here, as I’m sure there’s those that get bugged with too much disco ball in their eyes.

I am hoping to see the windows of Saint Chapelle Church when I go to France. It’s like a bucket list for stained glass aficionados.

Saint Chapelle Chapel, Paris, France

But I digress.

You know how one thing leads to another and another and another. Well, a few amazing stained glass room pictures showed up on my Internet feed, and before you knew it, I was collecting images of stained glass rooms.

So here for your enjoyment — and overload — is my dream Stained Glass House.

 

Front Entry Way

 

Hall to Living Quarters

 

Living Room, West Side

 

Living Room, East Side

 

Library

 

Kitchen

 

Kitchen Dining Nook

 

Tea Service

 

Study

 

Game Room

 

Bar Kitchen

 

Enclosed Back Portico

 

Indoor Contemplation Pool

 

Spiritual Room

 

Indoor Pool

 

East End Air Room

 

Hallway Stairway to Second Floor

 

Master Bedroom

 

Master Bedroom Library

 

Master Bathroom

 

Second Floor Guest Bedroom

 

Second Floor Guest Bathroom

 

Back Stairway to Second Floor Library

 

West Entrance to Second Floor Library

 

Second Floor Library, East Side

 

Second Floor Library, West Side

 

Second Floor Sitting Room

 

Second Floor Second Bedroom

 

Second Floor Second Room Bathroom

 

Conservatory

 

Kids Playhouse

 

Now my eyes hurt ….

I had a blast! Hope you did too!

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Atmosphere, Art and the Biltmore — Part 3

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George Vanderbilt’s 250-room French Renaissance chateau is a true marvel, the largest undertaking in residential architecture. Over a six-year period, an entire community of craftsmen came together to create America’s premier home and the environmental wonderland that surrounded it.

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…original art by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and John Singer Sargent..magnificent 16th century tapestries, a Library with 10,000 volumes, a Banquet Hall with a 70-foot ceiling, 35 bedrooms, an indoor pool, and a bowling alley. Almost all of the priceless objects that you see throughout the house are from George and Edith Vanderbilt’s original collection.  ~~ Biltmore Estate History

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Can you imagine a world where you could wander room to room and constantly be dazzled by antique furniture, paintings, tapestries, crystal, and more?

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Can you imagine a world where servants attend your every need?

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Flowers burgeoning from every garden, fires crackling from 65 different fireplaces, and lavish dinners on the Vanderbilts’ burgundy-and-gold-bordered china made in England by Minton and Spode Copeland, silver flatware featuring an engraved Old English pattern from Frances Higgins, London, 1894, and delicate, feather-light crystal from Baccarat. (~~A Very Biltmore Thanksgiving).

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It was a different time, a different world, far removed from the air and light we breathe today.

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Everyone should visit a castle once in their lifetime.

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We may not want to live there, but we can, for a brief moment, experience the opulance of days gone by.

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All photographs were taken by Claudia Anderson,© 2016.

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Read all about the Biltmore Estate at http://www.biltmore.com/