Elswout: Orangery in Overveen, Blue Green by Jeroen Somers

About "Elswout: Orangery in Overveen, Blue Green"

by Jeroen Somers

About the artwork

Description of Elswout: orangery
ORANJERY. One of the most monumental examples of 19th century orangery architecture in the Netherlands, built in 1882/83 to a design by C. Muysken.

Elongated building, consisting of an approximately square central pavilion under a tent roof with curved shields and a vase-shaped crown, against which a low roofed annex is placed at the back, two lower and narrower side wings, of which the roofs also have curved shields, and at each end a greenhouse, composed of a flat-covered rectangular section and an "apsis" under a quarter sphere.

The orangery turns its almost blind, invisible brick rear façade towards the moat running along the kitchen garden; the front façade, on the other hand, is clad in natural stone and is of course very open: it contains four glazed doors in each side wing and three in the central pavilion, the latter being enclosed in a shallow portico composed of three linked arches.

The façade, in which the central pavilion forms a far projecting risalion, is lined with Tuscan pilasters, whose cushion-covered plinths form part of a lower horizontal segmentation of the façade, the rest of which is formed by the also cushion-covered plinth area of the main pavilion and the closed feet of the doors; a second horizontal accent is formed by stretching across the corner piers of the wings and the central pavilion and the central supports of the porch