The Drawing Room

This room was also refitted by Lenygons in 1930 to accommodate the set of Brussells tapestries known as ' The Triumphs of the Gods '. Duchess May inherited them after the death of her mother in 1929 and brought them here from the family's mansion at Rhode Island.

The quality of Duchess May's collection of French furniture was confirmed in 1963 when Piere Verlet, Chief Curator of the Louvre Museum in Paris, was taking tea in this room and realised that the commode in the right hand recess was a French royal piece.

 It was supplied by Gilles Joubert in 1773 for the bedchamber of the Comtesse d'Artois at the Palace of Versailles.