@spencerhouselondon: The beauty of The Palm Room in five short videos. The Palm Room presents a truly theatrical climax to the ground floor State Rooms where gilded palm tree columns and a spectacular domed apse frame an eighteenth-century copy of the famous Medici Venus. John Vardy borrowed his fantastical design for the Palm Room from an earlier scheme for a bedchamber for King Charles II at Greenwich Palace. Vardy believed this design to be by Inigo Jones, the architect who first brought Palladian architecture to England in the early 1600s, although it was in fact by Jones’s pupil John Webb. Who knew?! 😮 #SpencerHouseLondon #London #manor #StatelyHomes #hiddengems