Mirror Room

The former ballroom is one of the two most representative rooms of the Poznański Family Palace. Today known as the Mirror Room, it still serves as a place for important celebrations and cultural events. Due to its excellent acoustics, it is very often used as a concert hall.

Apart from a broad dance floor, it has two niches, situated opposite each other, which could perform the function of either box or scene (which currently occupies one of them). Above them, there are galleries closed with semi-circular arches and confined with a railing made from decorative grating. The whole room is illuminated not only with mirrors, gilding and light colours of the walls, but also with broad strips of windows. During the Hitlerian occupation, the hall underwent considerable alteration. It was divided with a ceiling at the level of a prominent, heavy ledge into two tiers. The lower tier was adapted for office spaces and smaller rooms. As a result of this division, the original decor of the walls was destroyed. Its current state was reconstructed on the basis of archival photographs. Hence, it was only possible to recreate its character and the appearance of individual elements: the shape of mirrors, lamp brackets and chandeliers.

The upper part, preserved in its original state is Empire in style: above the ledge, between the oval windows, the walls are filled with gilded decorations with the motif of wreath tied with a ribbon with a bow and a garland of fruits and flowers. The whole room is capped with a flat mirror vaulting, whose central part (decorative plafond) is covered with a homogenous sky-blue plane that was supposed to imitate the vault of heaven.