The above gallery compresses several room into one smorgasbord. Moving from the previous room, with the exquisite brass and tortoise-shell, to the next, looks like this:
Which, whilst intriguing, doesn’t quite prepare one for the next room:
There’s a vast array of art throughout the house. But the stuff in this room is a concentrated dose that really blew us away. Funnily enough we were starting to tire, and needed a wee sit down. And this room has a perfect little bench. Which was also perfect for taking in some small measure of the richness of what this one small-ish room contains.
And onwards. The treasure trove seems never-ending. Too much to take in with one visit.
The mind boggles at the scale, the splendour. It’s an obscenely ostentatious display of wealth and power. But it’s undeniably intoxicatingly beautiful. Mad!