Visitors lying on the floor of the grand salon, photographing Janet Echelman's "1.8," a 96-foot installation hung from the grand salon ceiling.
ROME — With a sweep of her manicured hand, Princess Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi draws 20 pairs of eyes upward to the salon ceiling, one of many treasures in the Villa Aurora, the family home in the heart of Rome.
The eighth-floor residence, one of those six, is one of just two in which the salon ceilings reach the ultimate height of 18 feet.
There's a Tiepolo on the tea-salon ceiling at the elegant Musée Jacquemart-André, 158, boulevard Haussmann, in the Eighth Arrondissement, (33-1) 42.89.04.91, fax (33-1) 45.62.16.36.
Inside, Damien Hirst's glass menagerie of pickled pets occupies a vast salon with frescoed ceilings overlooking the Grand Canal, and reflects the light and water outside.
Even then, the Italianate salon, with its frescoed ceiling and richly colored tiled floor, was seldom used beyond the third day of March every other year, when Congressional sessions ended and the president arrived to sign 11th-hour legislation.
The summer salon has floor-to-ceiling windows that bathe the room in light and offer views of the 5,000-square-meter 5,000-square-meter 5,000-square-meter
But for an extraordinary selling feature, he asked the architects to stagger the layout beginning at the fifth floor, to endow six of the units with palatial 20-by-40-foot 20-by-40-foot 20-by-40-foot 20-by-40-foot
French doors opened into the hair salon with its patterned metal ceiling.
Beyond is a wainscoted salon with an ornate coffered ceiling and a floor in a large red-and-white checkered pattern.
It appears that almost all of the finishes in the apartment are original, or very lightly redone, from the 17th-century coffered Venetian ceiling in the salon to the dreamy azure glaze on Mr. Kress's dressing-room cabinets to the original refrigerator, drainboards and other kitchen equipment.
