Pink Palace Grand Salon Details by Phlilp Shutze and Neel Reid

It has eyes, ears and a pompadour. I'll show you a few details.

"Designed for lavish entertaining..." is right and I couldn't get enough of it. Palazzo Rosa, the 2014 Decorators' Show House & Gardens benefiting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is open through May 18. You should go.

Holly is blogging it too at Things That Inspire see: 2014 Symphony Show House–a transformation of the master suite and 2014 Atlanta Symphony Show House and Gardens–the Grand Salon. See my first post: Architecture Tourist: The Pink Palace's Master Suite - a Little Video.

"Shutze and Reid probably collaborated in designing the Rhodes House...completed just before Reid died...Shutze designed the entry facade..." American Classicist: The Architecture of Philip Trammell Shutze by Elizabeth Meredith Dowling


The front door from inside.


The front door from outside.


The view from front door towards Paces Ferry. We media folks had lunch out here at shady tables. It felt really good.


This is a first floor window into to the library and grand salon.


It has eyes, ears and pompadour.


The second floor windows are more elaborate.


Roses, shells and putti.



The mantel is taller than me.


Eighty inches tall with great proportions.


Details and proportions.


Wonderful over-the-top-ness.


The Grand Salon has its beauty marks. I like for things to look their age.

It's a lot to take in. More later. Get info and tickets: Palazzo Rosa, the 2014 Decorators' Show House & Gardens benefiting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is open through May 18.

The Pink Palace's Master Suite - a Little Video

Though I'd driven by 100's of time and seen pictures, I can't for the life me remember what I THOUGHT it would look like. I went on media day. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

The 2014 Decorators' Show House & Gardens benefiting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is in full-contact show house gonzo done up by dozens of Atlanta's finest designers. You should go, it's open through May 18.

"Shutze and Reid probably collaborated in designing the Rhodes House...completed just before Reid died...Shutze designed the entry facade..." American Classicist: The Architecture of Philip Trammell Shutze by Elizabeth Meredith Dowling


It has a terrific master suite. You can go about your business in bath and closet without disturbing your sleeping loved one. It's big but doesn't make me feel small.

The five second floor windows on the front light the master suite. The left two serve the bathroom (gentleman's window on the left, lady's window second from left) , the center window serves the ladies closet, the right two flank the bed. These windows face south towards Paces Ferry, there are east, west, and north facing windows too.


The front of the house is to the left.The man's sink and privy are around the tub to the right, the lady's sink and privy are around the tub to the left. The window behind the tub faces west and isn't on front of the of the house.

The video starts in the second floor hall atop the grand stair. I turn south to enter the half moon shaped vestibule.


Bravo.

136. COUPLE'S REALM:
"The couple's realm needs to be the kind of place that one might sit in and talk privately, perhaps with its own entrance to the outdoors, to a balcony. It is a sitting room, a place for privacy, a place for projects; the bed is part of it, but tucked away into an alcove with its own window; a fireplace is wonderful; and it needs some kind of a double door, an ante-room, to protect its privacy."  A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander , Sara Ishikawa , Murray Silverstein , Max Jacobson , Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel

P.S. The "Pink Palace" isn't pink anymore. I wish it was.