groote schuur estate tours Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/groote-schuur-estate-tours Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:59:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 GROOTE SCHUUR Rondebosch Cape Town http://travelsfinders.com/groote-schuur-rondebosch-cape-town.html http://travelsfinders.com/groote-schuur-rondebosch-cape-town.html#respond Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:03:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=247128 The inner hall and landing for the main staircase. Baker designed the chimneypiece in the background. Sitting on the carved teak newel posts is a replica of the mysterious bird sculpture found in the Great Zimbabwe ruins, a stone original of which survives elsewhere in the house. The motif is integrated into the architecture and appears on fire screens, door handles and door fittings. Baker’s domestic architectural legacy is nowhere more magnificent than here at Groote Schuur, the house he rebuilt for Cecil John Rhodes in 1893, in a style that gave rise to a whole new homegrown architectural idiom.

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