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The Vermeil Room was originally a staff work room used for storage and later for the tasks of polishing silver. Theodore Roosevelt's 1902 renovation of the White House by architect Charles Follen McKim reconfigured the use of the house, finishing much of the ground floor for public use.
Pronounced 'Ver-May', the Trade Standard for vermeil is a piece consisting of at least 92.5% silver (sterling silver is 92.5% and fine silver is 99.9%) coated with at least 2.5 microns (that's 1/1000 of a millimeter) of gold-to ensure quality, the gold should be no less than 14K.