The Peacock Room. (I have posted on it before.) From ArtNet:
American painter James McNeill Whistler and English architect Thomas Jeckyll created the room, which Whistler titled Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room. With Prussian blue walls, copper-green overglazing, and Dutch metal designed to look like gold leaf, the room is symphonic in its overall effect. Created from 1876 to 1877, the room was designed as the dining room of British shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland for his Kensington townhouse. Architect Richard Norman Shaw was hired to lead the renovation and Shaw brought on fellow architect Thomas Jeckyll to design the dining room. Jeckyll conceptualized the room as a Porzellanzimmer (porcelain room) to display Leyland’s collection of blue and white porcelain, dating primarily from the Qing dynasty. (Read more.)
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