Saturday, 23 July 2016

Servant's Quarters




What a stark contrast between the decor of this room and the one of the salon I showed you again in the last article! If the salon does not present an example of the richest decors you can find anywhere in the palace (those can be found in the king's apartments of course, or in the Great Gallery), still you can start to develop an idea of the hierarchy that exists in the decoration of the different rooms of Versailles. The present room, judging by its characteristically simple stone mantelpiece (above which you wouldn't usually find such a large mirror, but this little room hasn't got any window, and the mirror is not new), its plain white walls and its floor made of the hexagonal terracotta tiles so widespread in Versailles, is clearly secondary and used by servants. (And still, a nice room for servants! There's worst! Believe me folks!)

A simple stone mantelpiece and terracotta floor in the South Wing's King's Pavilion. 

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