{"id":21,"date":"2006-09-18T00:32:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T23:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayonissen.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-09-18T00:32:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-17T23:32:23","slug":"openhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Openhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Designed by Richard Rogers and opened in 1986, the Lloyds Building in the City of London is a celebration of hi-tech; exposed mechanics and functional elements, pipes and lifts adorn the exterior, and glass and metal predominate. Yet inside, on the 11th floor, is a bizzarre room from a different era. <!--more-->Straight from the 18th century is a room of off white and gold; elaborate floral plasterwork, gold-framed paintings adorn the walls, a huge mahogany table is laid with a silver dinner set and lit by a pair of crystal chandaliers. I was assured that the room was used on a regular basis, and wasnt purely for show.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Openhouse\" href=\"http:\/\/mayonissen.com\/www.openhouse.org.uk\">Openhouse <\/a>weekend give a great opportunity to visit buildings that are otherwise closed to the public, and I also went to the Wellcome trust building, with a huge hetherwick sculpture in the foyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designed by Richard Rogers and opened in 1986, the Lloyds Building in the City of London is a celebration of hi-tech; exposed mechanics and functional elements, pipes and lifts adorn the exterior, and glass and metal predominate. Yet inside, on the 11th floor, is a bizzarre room from a different era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}