So I shouldn't have expected to encounter Francis in the public-exhibition chamber at Borough Hall any more than in a steel magnate's Fifth Avenue mansion.
They had art exhibitions, played chamber music, held children's sculpturing workshops, and they invited jazz musicians to jam and the local classical orchestras to play symphonies on period instruments.
The exhibition is a chamber of pictorial nightmares; I walked away with the same spine tingling sensations I felt after my initial viewing of William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.
It is currently closed for major refurbishment and restoration of the paintings that were once in the king's art collection, but it will open again at the end of April for "Friederisiko" an exhibition spanning 70 chambers and halls, many of which will be accessible for the first time.
He and other educated blind people staged an exhibition in the legislative chamber of the West Virginia House of Delegates, which was praised by the legislators.
This towering structure, more than three hundred feet tall, has nine interconnected sphere-shaped chambers containing exhibition halls and a restaurant with a panoramic view of the city.
But have there been any major Chambers exhibitions?
She thrived on New York's cultural life and regularly attended opera, symphony, ballet, museum exhibitions and, her special love, chamber music concerts.
The highlight of the bizarre exhibition is the "glass room", a chamber made entirely of glass set inside a room lined with aluminium foil to thwart bugging devices.
"It's never been done before; Yann literally recreated the smell of my armpit," she says, about the sweat, tears, nightshirt and hair odors that will be continuously dispelled by a scent chamber installation throughout the exhibition's run.
And all four siblings look intriguing, in quite different ways, in this chamber quartet of an exhibition based on one that Marcel himself organized in Manhattan a half-century ago.
