A tondo light box originally designed for the ceiling of Enfield Town Station booking hall, located where a decorative plaster ceiling rose might have been in an earlier Victorian school. The tondo image has been developed from the patterns made by the silhouette of the great Forty hall cedar tree against the sky, looking up. At Forty Hall the eye is also drawn up to the elaborate patterning of the decorative plaster ceilings.
Forty Hall is partially engulfed on its southern elevation by an ancient magnolia: to the east, a 350 year old cedar challenges the domination of the house over its park. The magnolia and cedar tree appear in Forty hall’s rooms, reflected in its mirrors and pushing up against the window glass. The architectural decoration and patterning on Forty Hall’s fireplaces, stucco, plaster and wallpapers work over and over again with plant based themes.
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