The Vermeil Room ( /ˈvɜrməl/; ) is located on the ground floor of the White House, the official residence of the President of the United States. The room houses a collection of silver-gilt or vermeil tableware, a 1956 bequest to the White House by Margaret Thompson Biddle. Portraits of American First Ladies hang in the room.
Read more about Vermeil Room: McKim Creates The Social Room For Theodore Roosevelt, Truman Reconstruction, Margaret Thompson Biddle's Bequest, Kennedy Use and Redecoration, Nixon Redecoration, George H.W. Bush Redecoration, George W. Bush Redecoration
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“I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)