How many estates in Greenwich, Connecticut had a “pool house” like this one designed by Frank J. Foster and decorated by the H.J.M. Hooper Collection “for Dining and Diving?” This picture of a lakeside pavillion is a staged architectural glamour portrait and has a companion image with an imaginary waterfall. The life-size staues of Moorish slave-boys as pedestals for floor lamps complement a swagged Cocteau-style candelabra on the wall above the fireplace - while an awning cantilevered by Venetian mooring poles provides shelter from things that fall from trees.
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“The Estate of Donald Black, Mianus River”
Harold Costain, 1941
vintage gelatin silver print
13 3/4 × 11”