The old Old Original Bookbinder's, in its heyday in the 1950s through the 1970s, was a hot spot where red-jacketed waiters scurried through dark-paneled rooms festooned with photos of VIPs and redolent of cigar smoke tinged with shellfish.

On this day, members of the hunting party, who looked as if they were dressed for a Ralph Lauren photo shoot in fitted quilted vests and loden green pants, dined on game and other dishes in a buttery yellow room festooned with the mounted heads of exotic animals.

A real find is Cafe Baloo, a cozy room festooned with garlic braids and bay leaves at 260 Russell Street in the city.

But the Connecticut delegation has been entertained by Rob Reiner, while at Thursday's Montana breakfast guests, in a room festooned with pictures of Northeastern University cheerleaders, were a representative from Naral Pro-Choice America and two people from a coalition supporting statehood for Washington.

Mr. Hasan's father, Hasan Ahmed Daqrouq, 63, just out of the hospital for a heart tremor and sitting in a small room festooned with posters and photos of his son, is overwhelmed with pride.

A single room festooned with several dozen "covers that have lost their umbrellas," the museum, she said, "is dedicated to an appreciation of the mundane and to finding wonder and beauty in the simplest of things."

It was a very big room indeed, almost literally festooned with hundreds of clocks.

At nine sharp we were ushered inside to take our places in a windowless room festooned with posters of icescapes, and there we waited for the last arrivals in the silence of strangers while a man ticked off our names on a clipboard and scowled like Beethoven.

Over the dribble of a basketball in the gym above, Mr. Koch delivered a 10-minute monologue and then fielded questions in a room festooned with deflated green and white balloons left over from St. Patrick's Day.

The handsome mock couple paraded around to the amusement of all, until the youngest, not to be upstaged, came bursting into the room festooned with an odd potpourri of everything he could find in his closet.