#albertopolis

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Albertopolis… • • #albertopolis #exhibitionroad #princealbert #albert #alberthall #royalalberthall #london #kensingtongore #alberthallmansions #richardnormanshaw #architect #architecture #design #victorian #redbrick #dutchgable #queenannestyle #style #autumn #londonlife #otherhalf #flats #apartments #expensive #outofmyleague #14promax #iphone (at Albert Hall Mansions) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjLeWZ-Ibxo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🗺️Le tour des quartiers continue ! 🧭Cap sur l'ouest avec une bonne dose de gourmandises et de curiosités à découvrir dans le quartier de Kensington. 🧇 🏎️

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This is a recreation of James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room from the 1800s. This was a dining room located close to the V&A.

The installation is free to visit and is located close to the main entrance. It doesn’t look much like a dining room as it has no furniture in it.

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Victoria and Albert Museum – Filthy Lucre: Whistler’s Peacock Room Reimagined This is a recreation of James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room from the 1800s. This was a dining room located close to the V&A.

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colonnaded ingress to the recently realised #vandamuseum courtyard, converted from its disused boilerhouse yard, created to bring that #albertopolis vision to life but it’s the phone booth that really beings it home imho (at Victoria and Albert Museum)

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Prince Albert: Patron & Collector – Museums and Education in Victorian England

Prince Albert: Patron & Collector – Museums and Education in Victorian England

Albert’s German background, educational pursuits and patronage efforts accumulated in his aims for permanent museums as places of learning and leisure. Albert had a desire to reform deign and art education via a Kultuforum[1] in South Kensington, given the progressive, intellectual and reformative cli- mate of the nineteenth century. Socially, the government had passed the Reform Bill of 1832[2]…

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Bust by jacquemart Via Flickr: Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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Francesco Bracciolini, c.1630, Giuliano Finelli, Rome by jacquemart Via Flickr: Victoria and Albert Museum, London