In this corner room, overlooking the park, the bishop of Gorizia, Carlo Margotti, was held in captivity by soldiers of the Yugoslav army from 2 to 5 May 1945. Used as a storeroom by Count Guglielmo Coronini, with its fine stucco decorations, silk tapestries and beautiful Empire-style majolica stove, it was only in recent years that it has been restored to evoke a mid-19th century ambience.
To the left of the door, a collection of silver salt shakers and smoking accessories is displayed in an Imperial display case, while the Cherub in flight above is one of the three surviving fragments of the large altarpiece with the Assumption of the Virgin by Francesco Caucig that was in the chapel of Kromberk Castle damaged during the First World War.
Above the eclectic-style lounge area, consisting of a sofa and five chairs with striped silk upholstery, the wall is almost entirely occupied by numerous paintings, most notably the Head of a Possessed Man, which can be traced back to the ambit of Peter Paul Rubens, and a Scene of Gypsies and Soldiers by Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749), one of the most original and visionary painters of 18th century Italy. On the opposite wall are other interesting paintings: in the centre Jonah and the Whale by the Genoese artist Giambattista Langetti (1635 -1676), flanked by the Portraits of Gian Cristoforo and Amalia Ritter de Zàhony by an early 19th-century Viennese artist, and on the lower left the Portraits of Marie Antoinette and her children Louis and Maria Theresa Charlotte by the German painter Ludwig Guttenbrunn.
On the two Imperial-style coffers are a precious French bronze and gilded bronze mantel clock with a red marble base, depicting the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, and a distinctive Biedermeier mantel clock with two alabaster columns.
Between the two windows, above a finely inlaid 18th-century chest of drawers, stands the large equestrian portrait of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, brother of King Philip IV of Spain.
