I’m sure this has been said about this building before, but a quick historical fact from someone who used to work for the national trust;
if you go to old (well, 1700’s onwards) places you might see pineapples pop up all over the place – carvings in stone, illustrations in the sides of fancy books, table ornaments and so on.
Reason – back then, pineapples couldn’t really be grown remotely close to here so having one at your fancy party was a sign of wow rich – imagine having a fleet of aston martins or something parked on your drive for the today comparison.
Once we (in the olden days) figured out how to grow them here, gardeners were literally headhunted and paid silly wages to grow them for fancy estates purely so those estates could *rent out pineapples* to be table centrepieces. Hence, pineapples randomly popping up in architecture from 1720ish onwards.
I knew the guy that rewired that building. (He was a bit of an asshole)
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I’m sure this has been said about this building before, but a quick historical fact from someone who used to work for the national trust;
if you go to old (well, 1700’s onwards) places you might see pineapples pop up all over the place – carvings in stone, illustrations in the sides of fancy books, table ornaments and so on.
Reason – back then, pineapples couldn’t really be grown remotely close to here so having one at your fancy party was a sign of wow rich – imagine having a fleet of aston martins or something parked on your drive for the today comparison.
Once we (in the olden days) figured out how to grow them here, gardeners were literally headhunted and paid silly wages to grow them for fancy estates purely so those estates could *rent out pineapples* to be table centrepieces. Hence, pineapples randomly popping up in architecture from 1720ish onwards.
I knew the guy that rewired that building. (He was a bit of an asshole)