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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.
And then there is gold vermeil (pronounced ver-may) which is in a class by itself. Gold vermeil is a type of gold plating in which the outer gold coating is not covering up some cheap metal like nickel, but is actually a coating of gold over top of sterling silver.ut gold vermeil is not simply any gold covered silver as silver buyers will no doubt tell you. The metal beneath the gold must be pure sterling silver with no other metals between the silver and the gold, in addition the top gold layer must be 10 karat gold at a minimum and greater than 2.5 microns thick.