The Second Withdrawing Room was renamed the State Music Room by the 6th Duke when he brought the violin door here from Devonshire House in London.
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This was apparently mainly used for walking in, and a growing range of parlours and withdrawing rooms supplemented the main living room for the family, the great chamber.
13.
A small oval " cabinet ", or private withdrawing room, the " Cabinet des Miroirs " bears a refined decor, and a parquet floor inlaid with pewter and bone.
14.
William Moreton III used what is today known as the Exhibition Room as a bedroom in the mid-17th century; it is entered through a doorway from the adjoining Withdrawing Room.
15.
Leading symmetrically from the centre room on either side were often one or two suites of smaller, but still very grand state rooms, often in anteroom; withdrawing room; bedroom; dressing room; and closet ) the greater the honour.
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The Great Chamber is the largest room in the State Apartments, followed by the State Drawing Room, the Second Withdrawing Room, the State Bedroom and finally the State Closet with each room being more private and ornate than the last.
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Either side of the Saloon are two smaller drawing rooms ( "'8 "', "'10 "'), which would originally have served as private withdrawing rooms from the more public activities which would have taken place in the Marble Hall and Saloon.
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:And, although it doesn't say so in the article, the room was called the " withdrawing room " not because the lord or lady of the house would withdraw there to get some privacy, but because that's where the ladies went after leaving the dinner table.
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Following the Restoration and the influx of European ideas, it had become popular for large houses to follow the continental fashion of a suite of state rooms consisting of a withdrawing room, dressing room, and bedroom proceeding from either side of a central William III to the newly completed house in 1695.
