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unusual facts about State Dining Room



Chiavari chair

The Chiavari chair is used in the State Dining Room and Family Dining Room in the White House in Washington D.C., and silver Chiavaris were used during the inauguration of Barack Obama as seating for his family and guests.


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Building 98

The murals were painted by Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps officers in the state dining room and in the base library.

Francesco Sleter

At Stowe House he worked with the architect William Kent for Viscount Cobham and was active in both the house and several of the temples in the gardens during the 1730s & 1740s, including the ceiling and the now destroyed murals of the Grand Staircase the ceiling of the State Dining Room, the Temple of Venus, The Temple of Friendship, the Imperial Closet and The Queen's Temple none of the work in the garden survives apart from The Chinese House.