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THE
KING'S APARTMENTS
When Nash remodelled the Pavilion (1815-1823) the
King's Apartments were moved from the first to the ground floor. George IV was
by now overweight and suffering from gout. The Apartments consisted of a bathroom,
bedroom, library and antechamber. The overall scheme is more restrained than the
rest of the Pavilion. The wallpaper by Robert Jones was copied from his initial
design for the Red Drawing Room. It was later removed by Queen Victoria and replaced
by a handpainted copy of Jones' design in the 1950s. |
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The middle room of the King's Apartments
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The bed in the northYellow Bow Rooms
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THE
YELLOW BOW ROOMS
The Yellow Bow Rooms were formerly the bedrooms of George IV's brothers, the Duke
of York and the Duke of Clarence. The design of the these rooms is by Robert Jones.
The block-printed wallpaper was commissioned as a reproduction of Jones' hand-painted
designs in the Red Drawing Room. The background colour of chrome yellow was not
commercially available until 1818 and was an innovative choice. These rooms have
been restored in recent years with the wallpaper reproduced from original fragments
and reprinted by John Perry and Company. |
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QUEEN
VICTORIA'S APARTMENTS
Queen Victoria first visited the Royal Pavilion
in 1837. Her reaction was cool: "The Pavilion is a strange, odd, Chinese
looking place, both outside and inside. Most of the rooms are low, and I can only
see a morsel of the sea, from one of my sitting room windows". She visited
the Pavilion again in 1838, but then did not return until 1842 when her visit
coincided with the second anniversary of her marriage to Prince Albert.
After Queen Victoria's gift of the Pavilion to
Brighton in 1850 her apartments were converted to form a function area. In recent
years these rooms have been restored to reflect as closely as possible the interiors
used by the Queen between 1837 and 1845.
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Four-poster bed in Queen Victoria's Apartments
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The hand-painted
wallpaper
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The
mahogany four-poster bed was reproduced by courtesy
of His Grace the Duke of Wellington from an example
at Stratfield Saye in Hampshire. This bed conforms with
the description of the bed in Denew's Inventory of the
Royal Pavilion which was compiled shortly after Queen
Victoria left Brighton.
Originally the room was decorated with a hand-painted
Chinese paper, made for the export market. These papers were produced in sets,
so that when hung they formed a continuous, unrepeating scene. Using, for reference,
original fragments that have survived and information from other similar sets
of papers still in situ in the country
houses, a set of wallpapers was hand-painted by the Pavilion conservation team
when the rooms were restored.
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Other
rooms
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