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Dressing Room

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Immediately adjacent to the bedroom, the dressing room was the innermost and most private room in the empress’s apartments.

Elisabeth’s dressing room was devoted to beauty care.

Elisabeth was regarded as one of the most beautiful women of her time, and was well aware of this acclaim. The empress’s daily routine was dominated by beauty care and exercise regimes designed to preserve her slender figure. The dressing of her magnificent head of hair occupied several hours a day.

The concealed door on the front wall of the room originally opened onto a narrow staircase leading to the mezzanine floor above where the wardrobes, sewing room and workrooms of her personal staff were located.

Dressing room in the apartment of Empress Elisabeth in Schönbrunn Palace.

Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H. / Photographer: Alexander Eugen Koller

Dressing room in the apartment of Empress Elisabeth in Schönbrunn Palace.

Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H. / Photographer: Alexander Eugen Koller

Dressing room in the apartment of Empress Elisabeth in Schönbrunn Palace, detail of the toilet set.

Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H. / Photographer: Alexander Eugen Koller

The rosewood furnishings in the Dressing Room are part of a suite of furniture which also included that in the bedroom shared by the imperial couple as well as the linen cupboards, which were probably used in the Linen Chamber on the mezzanine floor above.

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