A rendering of the Amber Room is superimposed on top of the decorative scheme of the Star Chamber. The Amber Room was a room panelled with amber which Frederic II of Prussia presented as a gift to Peter the Great of Russia in 1717 in order to forge an alliance against Sweden. The Star Chamber was a room in London’s Westminster Palace that housed a court of law which punished politically and socially prominent figures between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Today it is a symbol of power abuse and absolutism.