The Royal Pavilion

The Royal Pavilion

The Royal Pavilion was a very fashionable building in it's day. The

architecture was quite fashionable as it used the idillic style which

was fashionable and the farmhouse idea was fashionable, however the

Indian style the Royal Pavilion used was unfashionable. On the outside

of the Pavilion the Prince also used the neo-classical style which was

fashionable back then. Trompe l'oeil was a fashionable interior design

which the Prince used. However the Prince did use chinoiserie which

was unpopular then but was popular 50-60 years before the Prince used

it. The Prince then used wall-to-wall carpets which was unfashionable

but caught on. The Royal Pavilion was also fashionable because it had

banquets, balls and many other social events. Also in the Pavilion it

is clear to see the attitude from the rich towarde the poor, the rich

thought very little of the poor and didn't like being around them. The

Royal Pavilion does reflect the way of life in Brighton as all the

rooms reflect how the people in Brighton liked to live.

The farmhouse was a very fashionable place to live in 1786. It was so

fashionable because it was linked with the Romantic Movement, the

Romantic Movement was where the rich "pretended" to be like the poor

and stayed in places where they could escape the city life and all the

frustrations of it. A French philosopher, Rousseau, said that people

should get back to their natural state and live simply. The idea was

thought to be the simple life of the poor, like shepherds or peasants.

The farmhouse was also so fashionable because the King and Queen of

France, Louis XVI and M...

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...rge cities.) The contrasting areas of the Pavilion and the

arrangements made to keep guests and servants apart reflected the

divisions in wider society very well. The Pavilion connot tell us

everything about the way of life in the late 18th and early 19th

centuries, but it can tell us a lot about the lives of certain groups

of people, particularly the so-called 'leisured classes' who were

looking for pleasure and entertainment. It also shows the huge gap

that existed between the rich and poor.

In conclusion, the Royal Pavilion was built to Prince Regents taste

and he didn't care what other people thought of it, it also shows the

way that the wealthey people lived. Also the Royal Pavilion does

reflect fashionable tastes in architecture, design, attitudes and way

of life because of the Indian and Chinese styles used.