The straight and simple lines of the stonework are compensated by two flamboyant 18th-century Spanish chairs, and a marble table in the style of Italian palace furnishings.

White boiserie has Rococo shell-motif decorations, while over-door paintings depict rustic scenes in the manner of Fragonard.

The White Salon The reception room to the right from the foyer harmoniously mixes different periods and styles: the rather architectural window-surrounds suggest the work of Jacques-Ange Gabriel at the Petit Trianon in Versailles; the mammoth stone fireplace mantel has the look of a Victorian English piece, while the simple wallpaper pattern of vertical stripes alternating with floral strings suggests designs from the early decades of the Nineteenth Century in Russia.

Other focal points of the room are a magnificent Louis-Philippe commode, as well as a white marble fireplace and sculptures by Marcel Guguianu.

When he left the house in 1921, Frank Ellis sold it to the Romanian Government, represented by the Minister of the Legation, Prince Antoine Bibesco.