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Salisbury House and Gardens
17 Jul 2022 - Steve NelsonSunday morning we toured the Salisbury House of the Weeks family.
Camilla put on some pink hair extensions before we drove to the Salisbury House.
We gave ourselves a self guided tour of the house built by cosmetics and pharmaceutical businessman Carl Weeks and his wife Edith. They had four boys.
The house was modeled after the King’s House in Salisbury, England.
Edith was an Art History major and the house has many paintings on display. The painter with the most paintings in the house was Ghent, who seemed to paint in a blurry style, so I didn’t take any pictures of her work ;P.
Photos of other paintings are below.
Head of a Girl painting (below).
Saint Catherine of Alexandria’ painting (below).
Saint Catherine’s miracle was that after being sentenced to a slow death by spiked roller, the torture device’s wheel broke and beheaded her so she received an instantaneous death.
The Tennis Players painting.
Some brands of Weeks businesses included Armand and Weeks & Leo Co.
The house was built for $150,000, but cost about $3,000,000 to finish and decorate (which is equivalent to about $40,000,000 at the time the poster I read was created).
Here are some pics of the bathrooms.
One of Carl’s businesses was one of the first companies to refuse to sell its products to shops that would offer discounts on their products. The case went to the supreme court before it was lost.
Man with a Guitar painting (below).
Carl revolutionized the face powder market by combining cold cream into face powder. The product was marketed as “ARMAND’S COMPLEXION POWDER IN THE LITTLE PINK & WHITE HAT BOX” and “ARMAND COLD CREAM POWDER In The LITTLE PINK & WHITE HAT BOXES”.
- Wikipedia