Photo credit: St. Petersburg, Gatchina

Photo credit: St. Petersburg, Gatchina

If you remember our blog on June 10, 2008, we wrote about our  German Secretaire à Abattant, whose polished mahogany interior is disguised as a ruin by a painted cork façade. We’ve gotten a lot of great feedback on the piece and were recently informed of another instance where a lavish interior is concealed beneath a rough façade–the Birch House in the park of Gatchina Palace, near St. Petersburg, Russia.