View of interior of house by Chapman-Taylor - Photograph taken by Sarony Studios, Wellington

View of the dining room in house designed and built in 1909 by arts and crafts architect, Walter Chapman-Taylor for James and Vera Bell. The wooden floor is covered by a large rug. The view includes a gothic arched brick fireplace with curtained inglenook, lower wall of planks, and braced plank door. Two dining chairs can be seen, a morris chair, and part of a sideboard. The upper walls are covered with hessian, and the roof has dark beams over a tongue and groove plank ceiling. The wooden panneled fire surround supports decorative china plates, candle sticks, and pewter mugs. A hanging shelf above the inglenook beam also contains decorative china. Three prints above the fireplace are from paintings by the British symbolist artist, G F Watts, and two others are from Italian renaissance paintings. There is no electric lighting. Photographed by Sarony Studios, Wellington, in 1909.

The interior doors of this house are braced by planks which have adzed-shaped sections cut into them. This was a trade mark of Walter Chapmen-Taylor.

This photograph originally belonged to Andrew Bell, the son of Katherine Mansfield's sister Vera Bell (nee Beauchamp).

This house burnt down in 1909 (info - Judy Siers).

Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.5 x 15.4 cm, on cardboard mount