onto our walls then put gold moldings surrounded each one.
The walls in the Star Chamber were covered with 16th Century etchings of sacred geometry. we had this printed on canvas and stretched and tacked onto our walls then put gold moldings surrounded each one.
These are the secret doors to the Star Chamber from the King Louis’ private bed chamber. The etching on the door panels is of sacred geometry from the 16th Century.
This is a photo of the Rams head basin fountains. They are copies of the real ones at Versailles.
All of this was made by prop makers, plaster men and construction.
We debated on how to do the floor for a while, I wanted a bronze copy of a
astrolabe in the center of the floor. I also wanted a bronze ring surrounding the ring on the floor underneath the dome and bronze markers for North, South, East and West quadrants.
We talked about having it hand painted, talked about real black and white marble? Our amazing graphics man Brendan Hessle worked out the design on his computer and we ended up having all the black and white marble and symbols printed on giant sheets of sticky back vinyl. The bronze pieces of the center and outer ring were built out of wood and done as inlay into the floor. It worked because it only had to play for a week or so.
We had tons of research on sacred geometry, alchemy, astrology and astronomy.
I will come back and write more on this later….
The finished plaster dome with the crown moldings with dentil moldings surrounding the bottom of the dome.
In classical architecture a dentil is a small block used as a repeating ornament in the crown mold.
The four corner columns with niches are just being added.