Explore: Drawing Rooms

called levées were called "drawing rooms", with the sense originally that the privileged members of court would gather in the drawing room outside the king's

has three inter-linked state drawing rooms: the Pillared Drawing Room, the Terracotta Drawing Room and the White Drawing Room. The largest is the Pillared

Romanoff wedding regalia by the Tsaritsa in the Malachite Drawing Room. The private rooms overlook a lawned and wooded garden, created from a former

at least five rooms from floor to ceiling, and notes that the collection had grown so massive that books were also being stored in rooms like the Picture

add Comfort to Overnight Travel, description, with illustrations, contrasting the roomettes, bedrooms, double bedrooms, drawing rooms and compartments

Merveilleuses", socially exulted women who frequented Thermidorian drawing rooms of Napoleonic France; and the "Incroyables", members of the subculture

of the Empire Room, the Throne Room and the Small and Large White Drawing Rooms. Since 1965, the palace has been open to the public regularly from 21

state rooms is the Music Room, its large bow the dominant feature of the façade. Flanking the Music Room are the Blue and the White Drawing Rooms. At the

somewhat low-pitched rooms on the ground-floor, several drawing-rooms on the first floor, a corridor in the rear, and the servants' rooms on the top storey;

without major structural alteration, the state rooms sometimes became a meaningless succession of drawing rooms and the original intention was lost. This is