Yesterday, I explored the gardens and grounds of Parham House in its beautiful setting in a vast deer park just to the north of the South Downs.
Today, I explored the house a very atmospheric set of rooms, whose character seems to reflect the tastes of the 1920s and 1930s when the house was bought by Clive and Alicia Pearson who bought good and appropriate furniture and presumably asked Oliver Messel to paint the decoration in the Long Gallery:-
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Hello Charles, WordPress will not let me comment on your blog, but I wanted to ask if this was the original home of Parnham College school of furniture design? As founded by John Makepeace. Good wishes Stephen
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No, Parnham was in Dorset. The School closed in 2001 and the house suffered a disastrous fire in 2017. Charles
Sorry, I did not notice the difference in spelling. Thank you for sharing your images of Parham, one to look up and visit.
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