Arab Room: Like the Winter Smoking Room, the Arab Room is located in a tower, this time in the Herbert Tower
Arab Room: Like the Winter Smoking Room, the Arab Room is located in a tower, this time in the Herbert Tower, which Burges built up from a sixteenth-century wing. While both the Summer and Winter Smoking Rooms were strictly male provinces, this was intended as a drawing room for the women. This may partly explain its harem feel. More importantly, however, Burges's early travels in Sicily and Constantinople had convinced him of the Moorish sources of medieval art; and recently both he and Lord Leighton had been inspired by Prisse d'Avennes's three-volume "exotic publication" with "gilded plates". The Arab Room is breathtaking, largely because of its extraordinarily rich ceiling, sometimes described in terms of a honeycomb. But there is intricately patterned carving everywhere, in various materials — from the cornice to the chairbacks to the marble panel over the fireplace. As a result, the room is arguably the apogee of Burges's work as an interior designer. He was still working on it in the months before he died, indeed, according to Crook he worked here on his very last visit to the castle" Burges died in the April of that year.
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