 The Ritz 's most widely known facility is the Palm Court , an opulently decorated cream @-@ coloured Louis XVI setting . It is decorated with lavish furnishings , including gilded Louis XVI armchairs with oval backs , which the architects had designed based on research into French neo @-@ classical furniture design of the 1760s and 1770s , which were made by Waring and Gillow . The room , with its , " panelled mirrors of bevelled glass in gilt bronze frames and " high coving ornamented with gilded trellis @-@ work " , according to Montgomery @-@ Massingberd and Watkin " epitomizes the elegantly frivolous comfort of Edwardian high life " . 
