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The Entrance Hall (also called the Grand Foyer) is the primary and formal entrance to the White House, the official residence of the president of the United States. The room is rectilinear in shape and measures approximately 31 by 44 feet.
Overall, the building is 100 feet (30 m) high, 630 feet (190 m) long, and 300 feet (91 m) wide. The Kennedy Center features a 630-foot-long (190 m), 63-foot-high (19 m) grand foyer, with 16 hand-blown Orrefors crystal chandeliers (a gift from Sweden) and red carpeting. The Hall of States and the Hall of Nations are both 250-foot-long (76 m), 63 ...
The grand foyer with, on the right hand side, the little foyer and, on the left hand side, the little salon, are the piano nobile of the main façade. The enfilade effect of the three spaces in the grand foyer is magnified by the subtle visual interplay of reflections from several oversized mirrors.
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A floor plan with a modern vestibule shown in red. A vestibule (also anteroom, antechamber, air-lock entry or foyer) is a small room leading into a larger space [1] such as a lobby, entrance hall, or passage, for the purpose of waiting, withholding the larger space from view, reducing heat loss, providing storage space for outdoor clothing, etc.
The foyer opens onto an outside loggia and is flanked by two octagonal salons with ceilings painted by Jules-Élie Delaunay in the eastern salon and Félix-Joseph Barrias in the western salon. The octagonal salons open to the north into the Salon de la Lune at the western end of the Avant-Foyer and the Salon du Soleil at its eastern end.
This high ceiling phenomenon can be easily explained by saying that retailers need room for hanging signs or space to put security cameras. But there’s a more subtle reason for these sky-high ...
An image that showed more of the rather impressive looking ceiling (such as the one found here) might be better but this seems to fulfil all the criteria. Guest9999 14:21, 15 May 2008 (UTC) Nominated by Guest9999 14:23, 15 May 2008 (UTC) Comments. Now nominated see Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Le grand foyer; Seconder