 The Ritz's most widely known facility is the Palm Court, an opulently decorated cream-coloured Louis XVI setting. It is decorated with lavish furnishings, including gilded Louis XVI armchairs with oval backs, which the architects had designed based on research into French neo-classical furniture design of the 1760s and 1770s, which were made by Waring and Gillow. The room, with its, "panelled mirrors of bevelled glass in gilt bronze frames and" high coving ornamented with gilded trellis-work ", according to Montgomery-Massingberd and Watkin" epitomizes the elegantly frivolous comfort of Edwardian high life ".
