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Room of Pomegranates  The Room of the Pomegranates forms part of the apartment known as "Chatel d'argent" and is named after the pomegranates that - together with other fruits and plants, such as cocoa, strawberries and cloves - decorate the tapestry painted on the walls to simulate a fabulously rich fabric.
The polychrome ceiling is attractively decorated with an extraordinary variety of scrolls, in the form of acanthus leaves, ornamental motifs, furs and small landscapes. This successful combination was the work of Pietro Antonio Pozzo, and it closely resembles the decoration, also by the same artist, on the ceiling of the "salottino" in the western apartment of the Hunting Palace at Stupinigi.
The green damask pelmets were made for the windows in this room in the 18th century, while the floor is tiled with 18th-century Piedmontese terracotta.
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