Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
Waddesdon Manor was built between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, a member of the successful banking family. He, like many of his relatives, was an enthusiastic collector of 18th-century French works of art. Most of the interiors at Waddesdon were in the French Style. The Louis XV-style Dining Room featured richly coloured marbles, tapestries, carved and gilded furniture and large expanses of mirror glass. The mirror frames had come from an 18th-century house in Paris, but the rest of the furnishing were newly made.