What building is more exhilaratingly exotic and unexpectedly beautiful than the royal stables at Brighton Pavilion?
With their romantic Indian forms weaving into their glorious finery, they are spectacularly rare.
They were designed by William Porden for the Prince of Wales between 1803 and 1808, some years before his famous Pavilion.
Influences from the East started to infiltrate into the rich schemes by 1801. There was a plan to add a Chinese façade to his villa, but this did not materialise.
So the first oriental building of any consequence to
