Limited edition giclée print
Edition of 250
Print size 594mm x 210mm
Printed on 310gsm
standard fine art paper

The Royal Pavilion is a former royal residence in Brighton. The Prince of Wales, who later became King George IV, left London in 1786 under a financial cloud and rented a modest former farmhouse facing the Steine, a grassy area of Brighton used as a promenade by visitors. In 1787 the designer Henry Holland, was employed to enlarge the existing building, which became one wing of the Marine Pavilion, flanking a central rotunda containing three main rooms. In 1801-02 the Pavilion was enlarged with a new dining room and conservatory, to designs of Peter Frederick Robinson. Between 1815 and 1822 the designer John Nash redesigned and greatly extended the Pavilion in the Indo-Saracenic style which can be seen today. The Pavilion was sold to Brighton for £53,000 in 1850 and the town used the building as assembly rooms. Since the Second World War, the municipality of Brighton has spent a great deal of time and money restoring the Pavilion to its former glory. Today, the Royal Pavilion greets around 400,000 visitors a year.