The Senate convenes in an even more splendid room, with walls covered in embossed Spanish leather, Mexican onyx, and 23k.
The author of one of the most instantly recognisable pieces of music in the world is sitting in a splendid room in Claridge's, a synthesiser and a piano close at hand.
In my splendid room, my bags have been safely delivered and laid out.
The Schönbrunn Palace, the summer residence of the Habsburgs, with its splendid rooms decorated in Rococo style and its great formal park, lies to the southwest in the suburb of Hietzing.
Its 160 splendid rooms are hardly outshone by the late 19th-century charm of the Art Nouveau dome over the tea salon and the rococo interior of the main restaurant, Le Meurice.
Instead, Iran's foreign minister and his team have set up their own traditional Norouz table - the Haft Seen - in one of the splendid rooms of the 19th Century Beau-Rivage Palace Hotel.
"But because they offered what are splendid rooms, right in the middle of London, I thought, 'One should use this opportunity.' Of course you should.
Downstairs, in the splendid drawing room, there's still space for lots of old family photos; in the library, logs piled high wait to be tossed on the fire.
In 2006, I sat in a splendid gilded room with the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yushchenko, and listened as he told me that the Orange Revolution — Ukraine's first attempt to throw off its corrupt leadership — was failing, thanks to Russian pressure, and why it wasn't his fault.
Meals for both families were prepared in the extensive basement with its large kitchen; the Ladiges' maid carried their meals up to the upper floor, while the Brooks received theirs via the dumb-waiter lift to the splendid dining room on the ground floor.
But the thing that made my heart skip a beat--in addition to the atrium where Matisse's La Gerbe (story of its acquisition below) had once graced the unique outdoor space (the art hanging on the walls is now reproduction or posters), more than the rolling infinity lawn, or the doors which open the house to the outside, was the splendid dressing room and master bath.
