Talk:Enfilade (architecture)

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I see someone has desized the images that include plans. Please put them back to those larger, specified sizes; the features that are described in the article are no longer visible, even on my 21 inch screen. Thanks. Risker (talk) 02:33, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

I have reset both to 300px. We don't really have room to size up the H of P to 400px at present; perhaps you could write some more (sorry; write something). You can see it much better on full view anyway; for most I expect the numbers are too small in any case. I expect someone else will be along shortly to desize them again, so you may want to watchlist it. Johnbod (talk) 03:01, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Johnbod, I appreciate your work. The story behind this article is that I was reviewing Prince's Palace of Monaco for Giano because it will be tomorrow's Main Page article, and when I clicked on the link for enfilade...well, not quite what I expected for an architectural term that I wasn't familiar with in the first place - so now you know why I've not written a word here. I have to say that this article is pretty impressive for being less than 24 hours old! Give it another few days, and there will probably be a couple of references and an image gallery. Risker (talk) 03:16, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

The expansions are really good, and welcome, but I wonder if there is a little too much emphasis on "state rooms" and "state apartments." An enfilade can, after all, be any series of aligned or connceting rooms, even in a school or a hospital. Just a thought. Giano (talk) 12:02, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

true, although your first para set the tone, and the Barry NG is another example. It is quite an inconvenient form for most buildings, as if all the rooms are being used, whatever is going on is liable to constantly interrupted by people wandering through. A pretty rare feature of schools, home of the grand corridor, I would think. I'm not sure hospitals are much different. Johnbod (talk) 15:27, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

No, not at all, at Buckingham palace two enfilades are divided by the picture gallery serving as a coridor, and a similar arrangement is at Woburn Abbey, and the enfilades at the Winter Palace too have coridors running behind them. Perhaps I over emphasised when I knocked the stub off, I had a palace on my mind at the time, and was obviously tunnel visioned! Giano (talk) 16:03, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

I thought we were trying to get away from palaces! That's also common in museums - Louvre, Prado etc, and of course most palace enfilades, like Hampton Court, have service corridors behind. I can't think of buildings where they are common other than palaces and museums/galleries, libraries etc. Casinos perhaps, and assembly rooms etc. Moving and entertaining are where the arrangement comes into its own. I have linked this artice to all the occurences in WP I could find, and "what links here" rather bears me out I think. Johnbod (talk) 17:03, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Possibly, except most of those "enfilades" in what links here were "edited in/written" by me, who writes on those subjects. I don't suppose it matters a lot. No one uses the word much in any other context today anyway. Giano (talk) 19:28, 27 April 2008 (UTC)