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Black and white mosaics decorate the barracks floors, and frescoes in Pompeian red can be seen on some of the remaining walls.

From The Guardian • May 20, 2016

Now Soane’s bedroom, bathroom, oratory, book passage and morning room have been gloriously reinstated, right down to the Pompeian red wallpaper.

From New York Times • May 19, 2015

Ceiling-high, Pompeian red bookcases line three walls; the fourth is decked with framed pictures of Lippmann friends, living and dead: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Georges Clemenceau.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Procope was refurbished with a vengeance in 1988 -- Pompeian red walls, l8th century oval portraits, crystal chandeliers, flintlock pistols and, for the waiters, quasi-revolutionary uniforms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Silently, the lawyer and his son and daughter ate their evening meal, reclining on the triclinium in the long room tinted in Pompeian red, a frieze three feet in width ran around the walls.

From Virgilia or, out of the Lion's Mouth by Clark, Felicia Buttz