The Georgian Rooms at Winterthur. The BEST place to see great Georgian architectural interiors.
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- How can you see a broad cross-section of Georgian rooms without crisscrossing the country? Go to Winterthur. It is the Du Pont family home where almost 100 years ago, H. F. Du Pont started collecting American rooms from all over the country.
There is no other place like Winterthur if you want to see authentic period rooms. This starts a whole new series of historic rooms. Seeing and understanding these spaces will help you with design and restoration and new building.
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I love you energy and passion for period building design, quality, workmanship and knowledge about American mouldings and carpentry & joinery excellence!
Wow, thank you! Thanks for the feedback.
Love this . Amazing Millwork, awesome editing with super nice soundtrack, and detailed learning. What more can you ask for?!
Thanks a ton!
Your cinematographer is amazing.
I agree. OcurlarPop. They are amazing.
Not a fan of the ceiling shots because the lights are so distracting. The panning and in and out give me motion sickness. Too much time looking at Brent. Maybe these photographers make a lot of music videos. The home is nice. Oh and shoot from the hip. These are my preferences and I'm not trying to degrade the work. My tips would make a tour like this more impactful for me. Your pal, G.
p.s. I'm binging on all your episodes. 😎
Brent Hull is the stylish emperor of China, a true hero of humanity. Always jacked, tan, and dressed dapper to the hilt; Brent Hull delivers absolute perfection.
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I adore Georgian buildings and interiors. None here in S. CA, but I loved visiting Old Alexandria (particularly the Carlisle house) and Mt. Vernon on a trip to Virginia. I've been fascinated with Winterthur for ages, so thank you for this informative and detailed tour. The blue-green color of the wood mouldings in the Chinoiserie hallway is fantastic. And that staircase!! Amazing what they can do with wood! Just discovered your channel the other day, and I'm enjoying your videos so much. Cheers!
Thanks for sharing! Welcome aboard, I appreciate the feedback.
i do wonder, though, what slightly more humble colonists' homes looked like. These rooms are over the top! So inspiring.
You will see it in the next video. Thanks.
You've presented an outstanding review and commentary on this very layered subject - Thank you!
Much appreciated! Thanks for watching.
Bucket list visit. Have to make it happen. Thanks for the inspiration.
You should! Definitely a bucket list stop!! Thanks for watching.
It would be so awesome to go back in time to work with the masters that built that with the tools of today. That was a time you earned a chance to be a craftsman.
Agreed!
The balusters and newel post are amazing. What a great video. I had the pleasure of touring Winterthur with my dad, Mark Roberson, many years ago. As then, it is wonderful to see a beautiful building through the eyes of a craftsman.
Very cool! Tell your Dad hi. I miss him.
Maybe your best video/tutorial yet. I can't wait to see you do other periods like this.
Wow, thank you! More to come.
So beautiful, especially loved the hallway! Seldom see mouldings painted like that.
Great! Thanks for watching.
I am in awe of the lighting at all of these structures. It highlights the moldings, the features, the art, the space. The lighting at Winterthur was nothing like it is now when I was there in the 1980's(?)
They redid it 10 years ago. It's awesome.
Excellent video. Thank you so much. Onto the next one. Can't get enough of this beautiful architecture & furnishings!!
Great. Thanks for watching.
You know I live just 1 hour and change by train from Philly. I’ve been meaning to go to Winterthur because Georgian is my favourite period. Leave it to you Mr Hull to light that fire. Really enjoy your visits to the East coast in your videos.
Go for it! You'll love it.
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Guess I'll be planning a trip to see Winterthur sometime in the near future. This place is so beautiful!
You must go.
I am enthralled with Georgian architecture...I have incorporated many parts of my home to reflect that...as an aerospace engineer, I appreciate and am blown away by the applied geometry skills used in the making of these different components "by hand"...
Couldn't agree more. Thanks for your comments.
Georgian and Federal are my favorite types of architecture, furniture and decor. I like the clean, simple lines compared to the heaviness and fussiness of Jacobean and Victorian architecture and decor.
Agreed. Thx.
The production value of this video is incredible.
Cool I'll let Ocular Pop know!
Just amazing! I need to go there. Thanks for explaining all the details.
You should! It's amazing.
This video is wonderful Brent.
Thanks so much.
What a great video! I go to Philly so often because my parents are from there now I know where I’m going next Time!
You'll love it.
Next time youre in Delaware you should take a ride through Westover Hills, Wawaset Park, and the Highlands.
Some incredibly built old Dupont homes w all different styles of architecture. Feel like youd appreciate it
Right down the road from Winterthur
Noted. I will. Thx.
Wonderful video! So many great ideas and new things to learn! Definitely amazing stuff! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
The Georgian style is noted for it's use of LED can lights. 😉 (Although as Abraham Lincoln famously said, you can't believe half of what you read on the internet.)
Haha. That's a good one. Thanks.
Hi Brent, I've recently discovered compo moldings and am wondering if you can do a video about them.
Great suggestion! Will do.
Incredible
Yes it is!! Thanks,
I’m always amazed at the craftsmanship of these relatively old buildings I say relatively old as I’ve just been looking at a house with parts back to 1350). Somethings were in abundance such as good timber and cheap labour but so many things that i rely upon in my workshop just weren’t available then - routers, thicknesses, great steel in blades, lasers for measuring distance - it must have been so much harder to get that pinpoint accuracy.
As much as the craftsmanship inspires me, I have to say that the over elaboration of Georgian going into Victorian are not my style. It seems that the aim was to cram every idea, every feature into every room. The notion of less is more clearly was not in the Georgian vocabulary. Go to Osborn House (Queen Victoria’s summer and favourite building on the Isle of Wight) to see the final explosion of this.
Society was much more stratified than it is today - although even today is a far cry from what one of my heroes, William Morris, aspired to. The labourers would have lived pretty miserable short lives; the craftsmen had better lives but only the cream of those achieved reasonable wealth - certainly in England. A few architects, developers did achieve fame and fortune and their legacy remains for us all to see and take from it what each of us wants to.
And, of course, the wealth that was required to be able to build these houses came from the exploitation of the masses; be it plantations, tea companies, spice trading etc. so my admiration for the level of work is balanced with some disdain for the morals of the original owners.
Enough of the Morris derived socialism; I’ve started to invest some hard earned pension (from when I was one of the very minor exploiters) in the National Lottery in the firm expectation that I will win enough to be able to fly over to the USA and be one of those looking at these houses in person. I can’t imagine that I won’t win but I haven’t, as yet, stared packing my bag.
Thanks as always. I disagree with your assessment of the Georgian. Very different from Victorian. Victorian in America is mass produced cheapness. Georgian is all hand-made. These rooms may be cluttered to your eye. They are not in person.
Also, not all merchants and wealthy people exploited people. From my reading, most took great risks in shipping and trade and were rewarded. Many built these but never lived in them as death and taxes were certain. Thanks.
@@BrentHull life would be very boring if everyone always agreed and couldn’t have a sensible conversation about differences. Perhaps some of it is a result of my understanding/interpretation of Georgian and Victorian. There was obviously no full stop at the end of the William period; the Georgian period; the Victorian period but rather it’s a progression of styles with the pace varying. I would agree that the architecture for the wealthy in the earlier Georgian (as I would, rightly or wrongly describe it) was all hand made and it’s balance of taste much more to my taste. The Empire fashion from France, the rococo style with its increasing extravagance was one influence, I think, on architecture as the Georgian period went on. So, for me, early Georgian in England was restrained and stylish; late Georgian was evolving into the excesses of Victorian - who knew not the maxim that less can be more.
Excepting the style of some Victorian architecture, the quality of the work for those who could pay stands the test of time - certainly in London.
The early Georgian was the very start of the Industrial Revolution in the UK. A time of incredible social change where millions rocked to the new cities for work and ended up working and living in appalling conditions - but perhaps no worse off than the country folk they had left behind. It was also a time when the non-aristocracy, the nouvelle riche, could look to make fortunes that were previously the sole ability of the Dukes and Lords. With a few very notable exceptions, certainly the Quaker families of Cadburys, Rowntree etc, the masses seem to have been just regarded as the grist for the mill. It was this situation as it evolved that forged the views of William Morris et al - to provide beauty and function in items but also decent working conditions for their workers. A pity that the items that these joiners or silversmiths made were too expensive for them to buy themselves.
Absolutely fascinating place! What glorious craftsmanship!
Couldn't agree more. Thanks for watching.
Hi Brent. Can you do a video of light switches, power outlets, radiant heaters, fire detectors, etc in historic homes? There are 100 percent necessary in modern living, but they can be very disturbing and sometimes downright ugly in a historic house.
Perfect! Will do.
@@BrentHull Thanks! I am considering buying a colonial/Georgian home and running a bed and breakfast. However, in modern accomodations, guests expect air conditioning. Is it possible to satisfy this need without ugly window units destroying the geometry of the front facade or running ductwork through otherwise perfectly symmetrical Georgian interior rooms. I think the answer will be "no it can't be done", but if anyone can do it, you can. :)
Love the craftsmanship its so amazing. Can you recommend a book that can help me build that kind of beautiful trim? I would appreciate it very much. Thank you.
I don't know of a book that helps create that, but my book on Traditional American Rooms highlights about 40 of those rooms. If you want to see and understand them better, that is a good start. I also plan to shoot some videos on building some of these elements this fall. Thanks.
Super impressive and just incredibly inspiring!!! I am so fascinated by all your videos and just to learn more! I live in a new home in Maine with standard trim. It's nice, but typical. I really want to break the mold and add character and charm. I have absolutely no eye for this, but am very motivated to learn. The biggest area that I struggle with, so far, is size and scale. How do I know what is too big for mouldings? Are there general rules on proper proportion size? Thank you again for sharing your passion and being so inspiring!
Yes, watch my other videos on classical moldings and details.
It would have been nice if you'd explained what Winterhur was and how it came into existence.
Thanks, will do.
This stuff gets complicated. For instance, how often did rooms with more modest ceiling heights receive a high style trim ? I wonder if wealthy people, back then, ever chose more modest dimensions deliberately, or would that have been regarded as an affront to genteel manners? I assume snobbery was no less an issue back then, or could it have been worse? Did Dupont vary the ceiling heights? The exterior windows seem so regimented, or am I mistaken?
Du Pont struck a balance. He installed rooms as they were, ceiling height varied, but exterior windows stayed the same. I think it is the right balance.
Oh my goodness! Even though Winterthur is a museum, those LED inset lights are overkill.. It spoils the historical ambience enormously.
Haha, well that was a big project they did 10 years ago. A big improvement on the previous ceiling. How do you sensitively light and manage light in a museum space like this with so much to see. Thanks for watching.
Brent
Have you come down to Houston to tour the Ima Hogg house, or on down to her home place?
Yes, but its been 10 years. Sounds like I need a revisit. Thanks!