Beadcove Palace
The Duke's main residence and the most magnificient palace in Alma.
With a total of seventeen bedrooms and thirteen bathrooms, four sets of stairs is one of the most magnificent palaces in Alma. There are four floors of the palace with the ground floor containing offices, studies, the library and archives, and the music room. The first (principal) floor has all the reception rooms, the dining room, and the duke's own rooms. The second floor has the private sitting rooms and some six advisors have private apartments there as well. The third floor has servants rooms, the studio where the duchess used to paint, and a room that houses the collection of royal uniforms.
Room List:
Ground Floor
The lowest floor in the palace is where the palace's offices are located as well as the kitchen, library & dining room, Grand Hall and the Music room. This floor is mostly dedicated to the day-to-day affairs of the Duke and his advisors, with the exception of the music room where the Duke practices and plays piano and other instruments.Room List:
- Grand Hall
- Library & Dining Room
- Archives
- Music Room
- Bodega
- Service Dining Room
- Food Storage
- Kitchen
- Chef's Work Room
- Chef's Bedroom
- Waiting Room
- Administration Office
- Garden's Office
- Office of Secret Affairs
- Council Room
- Service Patio
Grand Hall
Decorated in bege and aqua marine tones the grand hall is the first room guests see when entering the palace, the ceiling is beautifully decorated with intricate patterns and a small chandelier hanging in the center of the room. On the sides of the west and east doors of the room there are coves with marble busts of the Duke's ancestors, and there is a marble arch leading to the main staircase, to the sides of the arch there are painted vases with spring flowers blooming. The room has two green rugs, with a glass table in each, where the palace's main butler registers the guests with the assistance of two guards.Library & Dining Room
This room has mixed dedicated function, it serves both as a library and a dining room for formal meals. The walls are painted in tones similar of those of malachite with gold and rouge highlights, with shelfs on the walls expect for the south one where there are painted shelfs with books and three large windows. The ceiling of the room is in shades of jade with rouge and golden decorations, two golden chandeliers hang above the reading desks and the south wall has three windows with rouge curtains. The room itself has a thirteen seat, mahogany wood table with two small lamps, the master seat is in the east side, on the east and west side of the table there are two reading desks each with three reading stands and painted in malachite tones as well. The floor is all carpeted in floral themes.Music Room
A room dedicated to learning and playing instruments, refurnished by the Duke's order. The east wall has an elevated small concerto floor, with two large cabinets for safe keep of the instruments, additionally there is a large piano on the south side. The walls are simply decorated and the floor is filled with chairs for when the Duke organizes concertos. In a elevated glass display case there is cello of great value.First Floor
This floor is dedicated to the Duke's living quarters and to the rooms for hosting events, it has some of the most beautiful and grandiose rooms of the entire palace. Room List:- Great Museum Room
- Flemish Room
- Office
- Bedroom
- Goya Room
- Great Bath
- Interior Garden
- Ballroom
- Emerald Room
- Gala Hallway
- Intimate Dining Room
- Lunch Service
- China's Locker
- China's Cabinet
- Bathroom
- Service Room
- Duke's Closet
- Dressing Room
- Duke's Bath
- Duke's Bedroom
- Duke's Office
- Anti-chamber
- Duke's Great Room
- Chapel
Goya Room
A deeply decorated room with a floral wall papel and plenty of paintings hanging of the walls this room is one of the Duke's favourite. Almost all the furniture in the room has gold paper or is gold made, including a large mirror that hangs above the fire place.Grand Bath
The grand round bathroom, decorated with floral scenes in the walls containing a plethora of trees and animals is one of the most stunning rooms on the palace. In the center of the room there is a carved white marble bath tub sunk in the ground with copper made eagle styled water heads. The bathroom has two green patinated bronze floor lamps "aux oiseau" with depictions of birds on top, a dark green patinated bronze and black marble low table, a deep green patinated bronze and black marble dressing table, a carved giltwood and patinated bronze adjustable daybed, a parcel gilt carved wood canapé "aux cols de cygne", a vanity table is a Rateau design icon that turns-up with the mirror and a low table table "aux oiseau".Emerald Room
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In the northeast corner of the house there is the Interior Garden, a room the Duke has dedicated to the growth of plants and study of botany and natural potions. It has three center tables covered in dozens of specimen of plants and all the walls are have vases and pots. The west wall has a large wooden desk filled with study tools and small glass containers, on the east and north wall there are floor to ceiling windows. The entire room itself is painted depicting a floral scene with a blue ceiling emulating a clear sky.Gala Hallway
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This room serves as the Duke's private museum where he has a collection of military armours, swords, and even some small canons. The room has dozens of glass showcases for exhibiting the armours and swords, as well as display tables with maps showing battles and the tactics used. The walls are mostly painted with bege tones and vermillion highlights, while the ceiling is blueish-green with golden highlights. The center showcase however has a dragon skull, a rare and astonishing piece for those who come to the palace.Second Floor
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Sources:
https://tdclassicist.blogspot.com/2013/05/palacio-de-liria-madrid-residence-of.html
https://aestheticusrex.blogspot.com/2013/03/rateaus-commission-for-duchess-de-alba.html?m=1
https://aestheticusrex.blogspot.com/2013/05/rateaus-commission-for-duchess-de-alba.html?m=1