It was an absolutely magical place, basically the whole place is filled with 18th century French and English furniture, paintings, ornamental pieces and armor. I took most of my 300 pictures there, everywhere you looked there was grandeur and luxury.. the sheer scale of some of the pieces on display was amazing. For example they had huge horses with men on top in full armor, they had massive paintings and mirrors adorning the walls and the sweeping staircase was just something out of a fairy tale.
I saw a painting of Madam de Pompaour by Bucher that I had read about, I stood and looked at it for quite a while.. completely in awe that she herself had actually owned and would have been looking at the exact same painting of her that I was. They also had furniture that Antoinette had owned on display.. the little signs said not to touch (but shh, I touched!) Quite proud to say that I touched a desk that Marie Antoinette would have sat and wrote at, astounding when you really think about it.
So after a morning off work came an afternoon of fun! I visited Camden Town and honestly I blown away by it.. of course I had heard that there were great markets there.. I just didn't realize that basically the whole town was a market! I couldn't believe how vast it was, it just kept going on and on. I loved the fact that it was such a complete mix of styles there, everything from Vintage, to super cute Japanese stalls to Punk.
An afternoon was not enough there, I can't wait to go back there and after not much thought I would love to live there. It's such a vibrant, creative and free place.. where individuality is a must have. Of course I did some shopping, I bought some cute keyrings from a Japanese stall, a gorgeous black mock-crock clutch for a bargain of £15 and a shocking red silk kimono (got to show that off soon!). Ahh, I wish I was back in Camden right now.
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