Posted by Abid Ilahi on Sun, Apr 29, 2012 @ 12:37 PM

Seventy years before Downton Abbey, A. C. W. Pugin designed London's magnificent Houses of Parliament. Pugin hoped his design would inspire a return to the moral and social values of England's romantic past of chivalry, gallant knights, peace and prosperity. Pugin also designed the interior furnishings including needlepoint rugs for his buildings.
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