Here are some more amazing images form the newly restored McDonald Mansion or Mableton, in Santa Rosa, California.
Have a seat and savor this fantastic period interior!
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| Main Entry Hall |
The
Main Hall design sets the tone for the surrounding public spaces, with its bold
structure of Eastlake-style mahogany woodwork, and a striking assemblage of Aesthetic Movement wallpaper patterns.
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| The Library |
The Library has 16 foot ceiling and a suspended
glass-floored, period-style cast iron and steel catwalk to access the upper
bookcases. Detailed in the Eastlake
taste, the mahogany mantel features fifteen vintage Minton tiles.
Neo-Grec style wallpapers enliven the panels of the beamed and
coffered ceiling.
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| Gentlemens Parlor |
The Gothic Revival style Gentlemens’ Parlor features an unusual oak
wainscot design adapted from a period example by English architect
William Burges. The wallpaper adapts an 1880s pattern by William Morris that was first commissioned
for St. James’ Palace in London. The coffered ceiling treatment is grained to match the room’s oak woodwork. Seen through the wide pocket doors, the fireplace end of the Main Hall
is overhung by two (of four) matching bracket chandeliers that were custom made
for this project.
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| Turkish Parlor |
Reviving a period tradition of exotically decorated retreats
that were often called “smoking rooms”, the Turkish Parlor for Mableton, conceived
in the Moorish Revival-style, here takes the form of a domed octagonal pavilion. Comprised of stacked, rotated, and corbelled
octagons of graduating sizes, the dome rests on a delicate, ebonized oak framework
of pierced screens, horseshoe arches, and slender columns.
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| Note the way mirrors are used in the Turkish Parlor |
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| The Ladies' Parlor |
Mableton’s Ladies’ Parlor has a feminine, French-Revival style. The previously flat sixteen-foot ceiling has been reconfigured into a
room-wide barrel vault, and embellished with a Neo-classical style wallpaper
treatment. Glazed and gilded painted finishes on the Louis XVI-style woodwork
complement the panelized wallpaper insets, with mirrors used to amplify the
light and views.
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| The Map Room |
Mableton’s Map Room is a newly-created mezzanine-level room accessed
via the Library’s spiral stair and catwalk.
As the name implies, the room houses the owners’ collection of antique
maps, and the cartographic theme is reinforced by a stained glass compass rose
window designed and fabricated by Theodore Ellison Designs.
The neo-grec wallpaper scheme of the Library expands into the three-part
ceiling and panelized walls of the Map Room which doubles as a private study.
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| Main Stair Hall |
The design of the Main Stair Hall interprets the
Anglo-Japanese mode of Aesthetic Movement taste, with repeating fan motifs and
linear outlines adapted from Mableton’s intact, original staircase railing.
At the stair landing is a matching suite of Japanesque leaded
art glass windows custom designed for
this project.
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| Dining Room |
Mableton’s Dining Room is an elongated octagon in plan with a double-coved, ribbed
ceiling, and shares the Main Hall’s “Stick/Eastlake” design aesthetic. Dark
mahogany millwork frames wall, frieze and ceiling areas filled with gold and metallic
accented wallpapers inspired by the Victorian avant-garde designs of
Christopher Dresser. A dining set comfortably seats fourteen and is composed of antique and
reproduction chairs as well as a table custom built to the geometry of the
room.
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| Master Sitting Room |
Mableton’s Master Sitting Room is part of a suite of rooms
that also includes the Master Bedroom and Master Bath that occupies one of two
new wings built at the rear of Mableton’s main floor. The Master Sitting Room’s
interior includes a gently vaulted ceiling whose form is echoed in the arched
opening that frames the south-facing bay window.
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| Custom embroidered curtain detail in the master sitting room made by Dianne Ayres. |
All Photographs in this post by MarkCitret.
The
Main Hall design sets the tone for the surrounding public spaces, with its bold
structure of Eastlake-style mahogany woodwork, and a striking assemblage of Aesthetic Movement wallpaper patterns. 
