 So restrained is the interior decoration of the state rooms , or in the words of James Lees @-@ Milne , " chaste " , that the smaller , more intimate rooms in the family 's private south @-@ west wing were decorated in similar vein , without being overpowering . The long library running the full length of the wing still contains the collection of books acquired by Thomas Coke on his Grand Tour through Italy , where he saw for the first time the Palladian villas which were to inspire Holkham . 
