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The Saloon at Longleat House

From Ferne Arfin, About.com

The Saloon at Longleat House

The Saloon at Longleat House

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This 90-foot-long room was added in 17th century and was known as the Long Gallery. The impressive, coffered ceiling, inspired by one in a Roman palazzo was added much later, in the 19th century.

Among the room's outstanding features are:

  • A huge, Carrara marble fireplace, copied from the Doge's Palace in Venice
  • 17th century Flemish tapestries
  • Flamboyant 17th and 18th century furnishings
  • 18th century Venetian chairs upholstered with needlworked backs embroidered by the 5th Marchioness of Bath and her daughters in 1926.
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