Vintage Photos of Romanian Art Nouveau Building “Constanta Casino”

The Constanța Casino is a casino located in Constanța, Romania. The casino was built three separate times, with the first structure being erected of wood in 1880. It was designed to be a club and community center for elite and upper-class socialites willing to spend. Once considered Romania’s Monte Carlo and a symbol of the City of Constanța, the most-recent and modern version was built in Art Nouveau style, also being the most important Art Nouveau building in the country, designed and built according to the plans of Daniel Renard and inaugurated in August 1910.

Historic Picture Constanta Casino Boardwalk with Patrons via

Constanta Casino, Old Picture with patrons via

Casino Terrace with Boardwalk in background via

Interior of Constanta Casino via

Life magazine Interior Story Illustration by Charles Dana Gibson (1893)

Charles Dana Gibson, A Kind Suggestion, Life magazine interior story illustration, June 15, 1893. Pen and ink on paper ,19 x 18.5 in viavia

Aunt Helen (1920) by T.S Eliot (1888–1965)

Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,

And lived in a small house near a fashionable square

Cared for by servants to the number of four.

Now when she died there was silence in heaven

And silence at her end of the street.

The shutters were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet —

He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before.

The dogs were handsomely provided for,

But shortly afterwards the parrot died too.

The Dresden clock continued ticking on the mantelpiece,

And the footman sat upon the dining-table

Holding the second housemaid on his knees —

Who had always been so careful while her mistress lived.

Vintage Photos of Rooms and Interiors from the 1900s

1906 bedroom interior. Yellow wallpaper, grey carpets. Otto Prutscher, Vienna.

1910s Executive dining room with seating for six by William Herman Rau (1855-1920) prominent Philadelphia photographer

The Drawing Room at Foots Cray Place in Bexley. It was built in circa 1756 and burnt down in 1950. The furnishings seen here are typical of the late 19th century. Bexley, London, 1900

Edwardian bedroom, from the William James family fonds, Toronto Archives

Smoking and gambling room at the Reichstag building in Berlin, 1903. Chesterfield leather sofas and brown gold stencilled wallpaper

Edwardian House Maid

Edwardian house maid in black and white uniform via

A Collection of Interior Photos Feat. Bedrooms (Early 20th Century)

Bedroom 1900

Woman in bedroom 1900-1920

Louis XVI style bedroom, 1904

1910s guest bedroom

photo of young lady’s bedroom c.1910

The Peacock Room (1890)

The Peacock Room was originally designed as a dining room in the townhouse located at 49 Prince’s Gate in the neighbourhood of Kensington in London, and owned by the British shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland. Leyland engaged the British architect Richard Norman Shaw to remodel and redecorate his home.

Shaw entrusted the remodelling of the dining room to Thomas Jeckyll, another British architect experienced in the Anglo-Japanese style. Jeckyll conceived the dining room as a Porsellanzimmer (porcelain room).

Above the fireplace hung the painting, Rose and Silver: The Princess from the Land of Porcelain, by American painter James McNeill Whistler, that served as the focal point of the room. The ceiling was constructed in a pendant panelled Tudor-style, and decorated with eight globed pendant gas light fixtures. To finish the room, Jekyll placed a rug with a red border on the floor

The Peacock Room at 49 Prince’s Gate, London, ca. 1890 via

A Collection of Turn of the Century Interior Photos

Mary Warner by Heinrich Kûhn (1907)

Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944) is regarded one of the forefathers of fine art photography, the movement that helped photography to establish itself as an art on its own. His photographs closely resemble impressionist paintings, with their frequent use of soft lighting and focus. Kühn was part of the pictorialist photographic movement.

Heinrich Kûhn, Mary Warner, 1907 via

Florence Peterson by Paul Burty Haviland (1909/1910)

Paul Burty Haviland (1880 – 1950) was an early French-American 20th-century photographer, writer and arts critic who was closely associated with Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession.

Paul Burty Haviland, Florence Peterson nourrissant le poisson rouge, New York, date unknown via

Paul Burty Haviland, Florence Peterson debout, près d’une fenêtre, between 1909/ 1910 via

Paul Burty Haviland, Florence Peterson lisant, between 1909/ 1910 via