The Restaurant, with its historic, painted ceilings and walls of silver plate, offers slickly served gourmet cuisine: the connoisseur's menu (£83, selected wine accompaniment £38) offers a bravado sequence of unexpected taste combinations.

Nynaeve had seen palaces before, with their huge halls and great painted ceilings and marble floors, their gilding and fine carpets and elaborate hangings, but this was where Elayne had grown up.

There is also a mirrored Drawing Room with a gilded and painted ceiling, and a vast ballroom similar to that of the family's London residence, Londonderry House.

This is the only room on this level to have elevated and painted ceilings.

Gothic and Renaissance stained glass windows and mural paintings, as well as a wooden and painted ceiling.

He stopped behind the shako-hatted statue and stared up at the great, painted ceiling, and he could not imagine owning one hundredth of one hundredth part of all this wealth.

Two salons are warmly wrapped in the original coffered and painted ceilings, with baroque reliefs, velvet and mirrors.

The eyes were open and through them Kadmilos could see a high, painted ceiling.

Inside the remaining floors are two painted ceilings.

Heavy wooden tables and a low, painted ceiling add to the cosy, welcoming atmosphere.