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delightful rooms Adam designed for Syon. Intended as a
with-drawing room for the ladies to retire to after dinner
and after passing through the Red Drawing Room, the
Long Gallery's pale eggshell blue walls are picked out
in delicate plasterwork of Mannerist grotesques. Adam
had the heavy Jacobean paneling removed and divided
the wall opposite the eleven windows into five bays,
with three doors and two fireplaces. The doorways are
flanked by groups of four pilasters between which are
bookcases filled with some 3,000 volumes. The sixty-two
Corinthian pilasters, painted by Michelangelo Pergolesi,
rise up to the ceiling to augment the feeling of height.
