The Victorian Philanthropist's Parlour Shonibare's large installation The Victorian Philanthropist's Parlour explores the theme of wealth and its creation in the 19th century as England's territorial ambitions reached across the globe. It is designed like a stage set that viewers can walk around, its provisional wall panels and floor supports revealing an opulent interior and furniture upholstered with Dutch wax fabrics. Its deliberately setlike presentation alludes to society's perennial fascination with costume dramas and period re-creations of the lives of the rich. The repeated motif of a black soccer player on the parlor's wallpaper and furnishings alludes to the relationship between colonial "haves" and colonized "have nots." Whereas, the majority of the fabrics featured in Shonibare's works were purchased at London's Brixton Market, this Dutch wax print was designed by the artist in collaboration with London Printworks.