Conservation: The Poynter Room Grill | V&A
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- Home to a trio of refreshment rooms, the V&A was the first museum in the world to have a public restaurant. Inside one of these - the Poynter Room - is an ornately decorated cast iron and brass grill, designed by Sir Edward Poynter in 1866.
Join Senior Curator Alicia Robinson and Senior Metals Conservator Donna Stevens as they undertake a conservation project to recreate the magnificence of the metalwork. Firstly they examine the details depicting Tudor roses, eagles, Japanese-inspired suns and waves, before brushing off loose dust, applying solution to areas of rust, and finally waxing and buffing the grill to return its shine.
Find out more about the story behind the world's first museum cafe: www.vam.ac.uk/articles/a-firs...
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I choked up at the beauty and design. The contrast of the two metals. Gulp.
Very interesting. The V&A cafe rooms are some of the most beautiful interiors in London open to the public.
Gorgeous object. They don't make them like that anymore! Thank you for the video!
xD "they did not make "them" as in "bulk production" back then either. It's a single piece. And you can still get stuff like this if you can afford it. ;) i was working in a metal artisan's manufactory where copper alloys and stainless steel were formed to fit various interiors. From yachts and cruise line ships to huge mansions and high class shops (Dior, Hermès de Paris, D&G). It is a dieing art tbh since nobody really can afford hand-made stuff with such quality, except for those who are disgustingly rich and use it as prestige objects. Most of our private costumers were newly rich idiots who wanted a fancy golden handrail for their mansions and stuff comparable to that ... blingbling to show off basically ... but the shop interiors were always cool tasks. and we had some contracts with cities and churches to restore old stuff. That was awesome work to do!!
Beautiful object and great video. It's always such a joy to see the enthusiasm of the V&A staff!
I love watching the videos. I dream of being able to come to the museum one day. But for now thank you ever so much for sharing it with me and the rest of the world.
Oh…brass waves! As it’s a grill, I saw licks of flame. Amazing restoration.
I thought it looked like fire as well.
The sun is rising from the sea.
The origional sketches of the cut outs also look a lot more like waces that the finished piece.
Amazing! This is what i love to see❤️😀 can you maybe make more videos of the museum interiors? The ceiling paintings, the stucco and mouldings, the staircases and so on? Would be amazing🙏🙂
This was great! I'd love to see more similar objects. I loved Lucy Worsley's series about the home, and any time I see an object that was used in the home< it's so interesting to think of what life back then was like on an every day basis.
I wonder if the decorative brass hinges are a phoenix with chicks, and not eagles ...given the heat / flame connection, and the embossed suns above.
I agree!
In mythology the pheonix didn't have chicks.
@@rupertprawnworthy758 Archaeologist here. Only one phoenix exists at any one time. It lives, dies, and is reborn in the flames.
Eagles are part of Christianity due to them being seen at the foot of God and being symbols of the Ressurection due to the imagery of their raising flight.
A mother Eagle in particular is liken to God in how she protects her young with her wings.
The fact that it's on a grate may have something to do with God's flame. As far as I know the Tudor rose has nothing to do with fire either.
I would love to see this up close and personal. The level of detail and mathematical precision involved was something I never expected I would be drawn to learn about. Thank you for the education.❤
Beautiful rooms for the people
The craftsmanship is ✨ c h e f ' s k i s s ✨
Will have a good look next time I pop in for a coffee
Stunning
But can you grill a steak on it? Was it originally for cooking?
It did broiled chopped and steaks. It's not operational now.
The 1st class menu was Jugged Hare, Steak Pudding (pie), and seasonal tarts.
The 2nd class menu was Veal Cutlets, Poached Egg and Spinach, and Buns and Sponge Cake.
Perplexed here. What did the grill do? Was it for heating or cooking? Was it part of a forced air heating system or did it contain burning coal or wood? I don't see a fire box and the slotted panels they pulled out don't look like part of any coal-fired cook stove I've ever seen. It's beautiful and finely made and they did a nice job of cleaning it, but what was it originally for? Does it do anything now other than look amazing?
Right? It's being treated as a purely decorative thing, instead of a useful item at one time.
"the smaller Grill Room (now the Poynter Room) was fitted out to 'broil chops and steaks'. Painter Edward J. Poynter was chosen to design this dining room, which had a remarkably different feel to the Centre Room. A cast-iron open range with an open grill dominated one wall, with 'hot chambers' on either side where plates were warmed. "
This article should tell you a bit more about how the grill was used: www.vam.ac.uk/articles/a-first-of-its-kind-history-of-the-refreshment-rooms
1866 was a long time ago, and presumably before Aga perfected cooking in a fire range. So the thing is likely to be very smoky in use.I very much think it would not be a good idea to try it out.
The little doors (whose hinges are the eagles) were compartments for heating plates as well.
This is absolutely a wonderful, educational video, but why is it under the ASMR category? Just wondering. 🤔
Stunning piece by the way.
This might be because our subscribers really enjoy the ASMR at the museum series: th-cam.com/play/PLe2ihXndm5jseo_RGEGeEbPy09z0nlmZE.html
early art nouveau masterpiece
about the majolica tiles, is there any connection between iberian azulejo's and poynters use of the majolica technique?
Nice 👍.
Those “tudor roses” look a lot like sakura blossoms
It is either a Lancastrian Rose or a York Rose, as the Tudor Rise is both of them together. 6 rounded petals and a large pitted centre. It's definitely a British design element.
Sakuras have double-pointed petals and obvious stamens.
Please say at least a handful of lucky patrons get chestnuts or Welsh raerbit cooked in the artwork. It is too magnificent and big-hearted to be deprived of its function.
The grill is not operational. The 'hot chambers' were for warming plates. The open grill did broiled chops and steaks.
I bet those eagles are phoenixes
There is only ever one Phoenix.
Mother eagles are in the bible.
Why not use it?
Big smog.
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Does it have a time delay Croc pot function tho...?
But was it ever functional? Was it ever used to cook the food that was served in the restaurant?
This etching shows it in use! collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O723695/the-grill-room-etching-john-watkins-re/
It was the smaller grill room.
The light fittings look out of place
Those horrible modern lamps ceiling...
The origional lamp of the Gamble room were just basic cones.
As a lover of the aesthetic movement, the V&A is, I feel, squandering one of its greatest assets. My experience is that whilst guests of the cafe are effectively at their "feeding troughs" they fail to appreciate the delicacies of the surroundings. It is full of hideous (no doubt easy to clean) modern tables and chairs, smelly (inevitably), incredibly noisy (hard floors), screaming children, staff clearing the floors and tables of dirty crockery. And people generally are too desperately looking for a free table rather than absorbing the art itself.
Why do they not do as other museums/galleries do - put the cafe in a more functional space (attached to the ubiquitous gift shop). Then use the original cafeteria as a museum space - highlighting the aesthetic movement /arts and crafts etc - so the rest of us can quietly contemplate its exquisite beauty. I realise its original purpose was a cafeteria but cluttering up this gem in such a way seems tantamount to aesthetic blight.
You see guy's, imperialism pays off..😳
Japan was never in the British Empire. It was a Coloniser itself. They had just started letting foreigners into the country at this point.
all the room are amazing and they put these terrible chairs and table in the middle. Lol even the curator of the museum don't get the point of what has been done before. Shame !
OT: But seeing two people that close to each other, presumably some time in the last 2 years, without masks, is distracting and upsetting.
They do vaccination and testing. The conservators are in a bubble together.