Leighton House Museum
The Arab Hall in Leighton House, Holland Park, London, is an excellent example of a room decorated and filled with tiles to evoke the ‘Orient’. 19th-century artist Frederic, Lord Leighton was a keen traveller and collector of objects from the Middle East and North Africa and, as a result, commissioned an ‘Arab Hall’ for his home in 1877. The result is a vibrant, splendid mixture of Islamic tiles and architectural references alongside European tiles and design elements.
