Page 58 - ESCARPMENT MAGAZINE | Winter 2013

58 Escarpment Magazine Winter 2013
Bold hues and a roaring fire make the great room a
favourite place to gather. With exposed beams and
a soaring, vaulted ceiling, the open space offers
down-filled sofas and outstanding eighteenth and
ninteenth-century furnishings and collections such as
rare, blue and white porcelain dishes. Tucked behind
the exquisite stag carving on the sofa table is a bouil-
lotte lamp, a quintessential piece of French decor
and history. These lamps were created to bring can-
dle light to the card table during festive games of
bouillotte lasting until the wee hours. Casting a soft
glow is a multi-tiered Antler chandelier from the Black
Forest region of Germany. At the beginning of the
19th century, Black Forest Antler chandeliers and
antler furniture pieces made almost exclusively for
the aristocratic range became de rigueur for lodges
and country estates across Europe to decorate their
hunting castles and countryseats. Elsewhere in the
home, other functional pieces of naturally shed antler
decor fit perfectly into the interesting mix. *
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