{"id":12251,"date":"2023-12-07T10:59:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T09:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/?p=12251"},"modified":"2023-12-07T10:59:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T09:59:31","slug":"v-a-gamble-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/v-a-gamble-room\/","title":{"rendered":"V &#038; A Gamble Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a class=\"highslide img_1\" href=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Victoria-and-Albert-Museum-November-2023.jpg\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Victoria-and-Albert-Museum-November-2023-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Victoria-and-Albert-Museum-November-2023-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Victoria-and-Albert-Museum-November-2023-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Victoria-and-Albert-Museum-November-2023.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gamble Room, V &amp; A, November 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;Much of the decorative scheme for this room was planned by Godfrey Sykes, a highly respected young artist drafted in by Cole. But after Sykes&#8217; untimely death in 1866, the baton was passed to the designer James Gamble. The walls and large columns were covered in a variety of colourful ceramic tiles. The so-called &#8216;majolica&#8217; tiles were made from pottery decorated with coloured lead glazes. Introduced to the public at the 1851 Exhibition, &#8216;English tin-glazed majolica&#8217; imitated a process used since the Italian Renaissance. Other embellishments included a frieze of children or &#8216;putti&#8217; (cherubs or cupids) harvesting food, dining and reading newspapers; grand mirrors in majolica frames; carved scenes with elephants and camels surrounding the doors; and stained-glass windows to hide the (unsightly) kitchens, ice house and art school buildings beyond. The ceiling was decorated in enamelled iron sheets reminiscent of enamelled name-plates found at railway stations.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Much of the decorative scheme for this room was planned by Godfrey Sykes, a highly respected young artist drafted in by Cole. But after Sykes&#8217; untimely death in 1866, the baton was passed to the designer James Gamble. The walls &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/v-a-gamble-room\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[911],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cafes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9SdXd-3bB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12253,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251\/revisions\/12253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianhuman.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}