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Dusty parlors and magical chambers.
When I sometimes see films that play at the end of the 19th century, at the beginning of the 20th century, the furnishings of the rooms can often be seen.
High ceilings, windows with heavy curtains, dark, heavy furniture, thick on the parquet floor, carpets with fringes, whose patterns are taken up again by the wallpaper on the walls and continued.
Somewhere in the basement, a grandfather clock beats the hours. Everything is bathed in slightly diffuse light, and when the sun's rays penetrate the window panes, you can see dust particles dancing in them. First electric lighting does not want to illuminate the room completely in darkness, as if one fears to discover flaws in an object of interior. Or, even conceivably, as if you don't want the "heaviness" of the whole to appear too vivid and real, the lamps would shine brighter.
I imagine that there are scents in the air that are similar to the atmosphere of such spaces. Covered, slightly dusty, wood penetrations, velvety smoky, earth-coloured, leather penetrations, with hints of fruit and slightly melancholic.
A fragrance that "Chambre Noire" could definitely fulfill, so that the "picture" is also right.
Such rooms often included adjoining rooms, so-called small chambers, in which one kept all kinds of things that would otherwise spoil the impression of a tidy "good room". Broom rooms, where cleaning things were stored, clothes rooms, where clothes were hung, which were not used so often during the season, pantries, where fruit, flour and all kinds of other things were stored for food preparation.
And who knows how many other chambers for various purposes.
But many had one thing in common: Often they were "magically" attractive, because the view inside was hidden by locked doors, and often "uncanny" because one was convinced that there was "lurking" something in them when they were opened or entered without permission.
Also there I suspect smells which complemented those of the parlours.
After several spices, if it was a pantry, after the leather of the coats and shoes that hung inside.
Sometimes after "cellar" when their usefulness served different purposes. and.... and-- and...everything was full of subtle secrets, full of slightly dusty magic, memories of generations who lived there over time.
And many scents, which were also intricate, manifold and mysterious.......
High ceilings, windows with heavy curtains, dark, heavy furniture, thick on the parquet floor, carpets with fringes, whose patterns are taken up again by the wallpaper on the walls and continued.
Somewhere in the basement, a grandfather clock beats the hours. Everything is bathed in slightly diffuse light, and when the sun's rays penetrate the window panes, you can see dust particles dancing in them. First electric lighting does not want to illuminate the room completely in darkness, as if one fears to discover flaws in an object of interior. Or, even conceivably, as if you don't want the "heaviness" of the whole to appear too vivid and real, the lamps would shine brighter.
I imagine that there are scents in the air that are similar to the atmosphere of such spaces. Covered, slightly dusty, wood penetrations, velvety smoky, earth-coloured, leather penetrations, with hints of fruit and slightly melancholic.
A fragrance that "Chambre Noire" could definitely fulfill, so that the "picture" is also right.
Such rooms often included adjoining rooms, so-called small chambers, in which one kept all kinds of things that would otherwise spoil the impression of a tidy "good room". Broom rooms, where cleaning things were stored, clothes rooms, where clothes were hung, which were not used so often during the season, pantries, where fruit, flour and all kinds of other things were stored for food preparation.
And who knows how many other chambers for various purposes.
But many had one thing in common: Often they were "magically" attractive, because the view inside was hidden by locked doors, and often "uncanny" because one was convinced that there was "lurking" something in them when they were opened or entered without permission.
Also there I suspect smells which complemented those of the parlours.
After several spices, if it was a pantry, after the leather of the coats and shoes that hung inside.
Sometimes after "cellar" when their usefulness served different purposes. and.... and-- and...everything was full of subtle secrets, full of slightly dusty magic, memories of generations who lived there over time.
And many scents, which were also intricate, manifold and mysterious.......
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