 The celebrated gold designs that de Forest stenciled on the ceiling were reminiscent of Japanese textiles, and the spiked flowers of the Japanese pagoda tree were the model for the stencil designs on the sofa and daybed.Throughout the Blue Room a number of small works of art were also on display, including etchings by the nineteenth-century artists James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Charles Méryon, and a fifteenth-century bronze bust of Dante Alighieri.The Deanery's Blue Room is often considered one of the best American examples of an Aesthetic Movement interior, alongside "The Peacock Room" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, now located in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.