The room has a very unusual arrangement. It consists of "two sections," divided by a Tudor arch and a velvet-clad column beside the stairs and the Knole sofa.
Chairs and armchairs in the living room
Right to the bedroom door and left to the large living room windows there is two Empire style bronze-mounted mahogany fauteuils with a rectangular back, shaped arms with bronze sphinx supports with conforming seat rail on cabriole legs mounted with griffin heads. The body is ending in bronze lion claw feet. I guess the color would match the Knole sofa, but the seating surface of the chairs looks lighter than the Knole sofa.
There also are a matching square small table and a stool, which usually stands left to the stairs.
Leather wing chair in the living room (red?).
Small mahagony coffee table with a lyre base, the same table can be seen in Mrs Peels flat in series 5
Pictures of Steed's living room in clockwise itinerary from the front door back to the door:
Some unique furnishings are the polo trophies, Steed's arms, and saber, his desk, the mantlepiece with the oil paintings of the officer with the shako, the hanging cabinets with the nautical equipment. There is a table with the small sailing ship, the oil painting of the Highland soldier, the low cabinet next to the bedroom door, the tall, dark closet, the table with the three-master, the floor-ceiling windows with the view of Big Ben and Parliament. In the middle of the living room stands a red Knole sofa and behind it the table with Steed's "bar" also a leather armchair (probably red) and chairs with armrests.
During the Christmas season stands in the area left the bedroom door the Christmas tree, decorated with a special "angel." Also just for Christmas Steed is using a folding screen, on which he attaches his many Christmas cards of numerous girlfriends.
John Steed's Flat - No.3
Living Room
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