Holland began with the great central rotunda, and turned the existing building into the Marine Pavilion, which contained everything a prince-about-town could want \u2013 a breakfast room, a dining room and, for those rare intellectual moments, a library. Holland was heavily influenced by French architecture and decoration; his interiors would have made Marie Antoinette, had she visited, feel at home. Whether they fit into an English house, even one owned by a prince, is another matter. Later, a Chinese influence asserted itself in parts of the interior, and that too remains in the mix.<\/p>\n
In the early years of the 19th century, the building was further extended by William Porden, who put up massive stables in the Indian style, and Peter Frederick Robinson, who had been a pupil of Holland\u2019s. But the finishing touches to the whole ensemble \u2013 and indeed its sense of unity \u2013 were given by John Nash between 1815 and 1822, by which time his patron was King. It is Porden\u2019s Indian work that dominates the building, however, and which will strike the visitor either as remarkable and ingenious or simply wildly out of place in an English seaside town. I tend to veer towards the latter opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holland began with the great central rotunda, and turned the existing building into the Marine Pavilion, which contained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3246,3247,494,3244,13,1183,956,3245,401,1233,3248,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-5943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","9":"tag-architecture","10":"tag-art","11":"tag-brighton","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-comment","14":"tag-culture","15":"tag-heritage","16":"tag-history","17":"tag-india","18":"tag-simon-heffer","19":"tag-us-content"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116346842291779939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}