Private house in Chestnut Hill, MA
ROMAN BATH: "PAN" &" VENUS FOUNTAIN"
"Pan" &" Venus fountain" painted Trompe L'Oeil over the pool in gym room private residence.
This wide room is bisected by stone arched columns, which act as a natural separation between the pool and gym. Three sides of this room are window walls, overlook a private garden and allow bright, natural light in at all hours of the day. There is a door leading out to steps down to the garden.
In tribute to the room's original purpose, the fourth wall, which previously served as the outside wall of the house, has a painted ornamental pattern running along the entire wall; it is a likeness to the preserved stained-glass frames of the veranda that used to be there. The section of the wall above the pool imitates the walls of roman baths, with two Trompe L'oeil niches depicting statues of Venus' Fountain and of Pan. The statue of Pan is particularly relevant to this home; when the artist suggested the design, it turned out that the owner of the home, now a doctor, used to be a composer and wrote an opera named after the Greek god.