A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, and an alternative name for a living room . The name is derived from the 16th-century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber , which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. In a large 16th- to early 18th-century English house, a withdrawing room was a room to which the owner of the house, his wife, or a distinguished guest who was occupying one of the main apartments in the house could "withdraw" for more privacy. It was often off the great chamber (or the great chamber's descendant, the state room ) and usually led to a formal, or "state" bedroom.
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54-407: A fireplace , dating from when this was necessary for heating. In a Japanese sitting room, called a washitsu , the floor is covered with tatami , sectioned mats, on which people can sit comfortably. They also typically consist of shoji , fusuma , and ramas which allow for the space to be very minimalistic and cohesive. Japanese living room design concepts contradicted UK and New Zealand ideals in
81-574: A comfortable space. In homes that lack a parlour or family room , the living room may also function as a drawing room for guests. Objects in living rooms may be used "to instigate and mediate contemplation about significant others, as well as to regulate the amount of intimacy desired with guests." A typical Western living room may contain furnishings such as a couch , chairs , occasional tables , coffee tables , bookshelves , televisions , electric lamps , rugs, or other furniture . Depending on climate, sitting rooms would traditionally contain
108-603: A reasonable price to add into their home. The rise of the Industrial Revolution played a huge role in the advancement of the living room because due to mass production , decorative items became more available to the middle class. An example of this evolution is the Miller House designed by Eero Saarinen . Saarinen knew that he wanted to design a living room not only with an appropriate architectural style but to feature " conversation pit " that sunk users to
135-632: Is a room for relaxing and socializing in a residential house or apartment . Such a room is sometimes called a front room when it is near the main entrance at the front of the house. In large, formal homes, a sitting room is often a small private living area adjacent to a bedroom, such as the Queens' Sitting Room and the Lincoln Sitting Room of the White House . In the late 19th or early 20th century, Edward Bok advocated using
162-430: Is a good size: 20 by 30 to 26 by 40 is enough for a very superior apartment. Until the mid-twentieth century, after a dinner the ladies of a dinner party withdrew to the drawing room, leaving the gentlemen at table, where the tablecloth was removed. After an interval of conversation, often accompanied by brandy or port and sometimes cigars, the gentlemen rejoined the ladies in the drawing room. The term drawing room
189-674: Is associated with the name. In 18th-century London, the royal morning receptions that the French called levées were called "drawing rooms", with the sense originally that the privileged members of court would gather in the drawing room outside the king's bedroom, where he would make his first formal public appearance of the day. During the American Civil War , in the White House of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia ,
216-438: Is credited to Edward Bok due to his accreditation of the magazine article, Ladies' Home Journal . The article was specifically targeted to women and provided them with reliance of popular content in relation to home design at an affordable price and Bok's vision of the ideal American household and the roles of the women. Bok strongly believed that the space should be "lived in" rather than having an expensively furnished room that
243-473: Is not used as widely as it once was, and tends to be used in Britain only by those who also have other reception rooms, such as a morning room, a 19th-century designation for a sitting room , often with east-facing exposure, suited for daytime calls, or the middle-class lounge , a late-19th-century designation for a room in which to relax. Hence the drawing room is the smartest room in the house, usually used by
270-433: Is seen as archaic, hence they are marketed as "triple bedrooms". The drawing room, being a room in the house to entertain visitors, gave its name to drawing room plays , a genre of theatrical productions and motion pictures . Beginning with the early forms of drama, the drawing room play has evolved to encompass comedy as well as to include the forms of the dramatic monologue. The play format itself has also grown out of
297-582: Is the Lady's Apartment, essentially, being the modern form of the Lady's Withdrawing-room , otherwise the Parlour , or perfected Chamber of mediaeval plan. If a Morning-room be not provided, it is properly the only Sitting-room of the family. In it in any case the ladies receive calls throughout the day, and the family and their guests assemble before dinner. After dinner the ladies withdraw to it, and are joined by
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#1732771872612324-458: The 1970s. The term "living room" is found initially in the decorating literature of the 1890s, where a living room is understood to be a reflection of the personality of the designer, rather than the Victorian conventions of the day. Only the wealthy were able to afford several rooms within a space such as parlors , libraries , drawing rooms , and smoking rooms . The change in terminology
351-517: The adults of the family when entertaining. This term is widely used in India and Pakistan , probably dating from the colonial days, in the larger urban houses of the cities where there are many rooms. The term parlour initially designated the more modest reception rooms of the middle classes, but usage changed in the UK as homeowners sought to identify with the grander homes of the wealthy. Parlor remained
378-488: The common usage in North America into the early 20th century. In French usage the word salon , previously designating a state room , began to be used for a drawing room in the early part of the 19th century, reflecting the salon social gatherings that had become popular in the preceding decades. The term drawing room was historically also applied to certain passenger train accommodations, designating some of
405-556: The drawing room was off the parlor where CSA President Jefferson Davis greeted his guests. At the conclusion of these greetings, the men remained in the parlor to talk politics and the women withdrew to the drawing room for their own conversation. This was common practice in the affluent circles of the Southern United States . In 1865, an architectural manual in England defined "drawing room" in this way: This
432-403: The gentlemen for the evening. It is also the reception room for evening parties. There is only one kind of drawing room as regards purpose: there is little difference, except in size and evidence of opulence, between that of the duchess and that of the simplest gentlewoman in the neighborhood. ... In size , a small drawing room will be about 16 feet wide by from 18 to 20 feet long: 18 by 24 feet
459-505: The homeowners could relax and lounge in. This style, known as the Louis XV style , or Louis Quinze , was designed intentionally to combine formality with a new level of comfort. Charles Étienne Briseux , French architect whose architectural style was prominently Louis Quinze, published Architecture moderne ou L’art de bien bâtir in 1728, introduced comfort which later became an obsession to have specific materiality and furnishings within
486-457: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drawing_Room&oldid=1189996597 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Drawing room In modern houses, it may be used as a convenient name for a second or further reception room, but no particular function
513-518: The interior of a space. Its influenced began in Paris, France, and then quickly spread across Europe reaching the attention of the wealthy and lavish. The Industrial Revolution emerged in the late 1700s which completely shifted America from an artisan and handmade process to a society that was dominated by a machine manufacturing industry. This allowed the production of chairs, tables, light bulbs, telegraphs, and radios that allowed society to purchase at
540-629: The late 1600s. During King Louis XIV's reign, the architectural Louis XIV style or Louis Quatorze was established. This style can also be identified as the French Classicism and had an influence on other countries. It included the bold use of marble and bronze materials. Louis XIV worked alongside Louis Le Vau and Augustin-Charles d’Aviler to design appartments de parade, otherwise known as formal rooms that usually consisted of discussing and conducting business matters. They also designed, appartements de commodité, which were rooms that
567-541: The late 19th century, the front parlour was the room in the house used for formal social events, including where the recent deceased were laid out before their funeral. This room had only traditionally been used on Sundays or for formal occasions such as the ceremonies of deceased family members before proper burial; it was the buffer zone between the public and private area within the house. Sundays are now more typically used for watching football on large color televisions causing larger family rooms to become more popular during
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#1732771872612594-580: The most spacious and expensive private accommodations available on board a sleeping car or private railroad car . An example, named as such, was a Midland Railway "Drawing Room Car" in 1874 that was made by Pullman and imported from the United States. In North America , it meant a room which slept three or more persons, with a private washroom . Although Amtrak has retired its sleeping cars that were built with drawing rooms, they are still used by Via Rail Canada . The traditional nomenclature
621-513: The plays of Noël Coward are typical works of the genre. George Bernard Shaw 's 1919 Heartbreak House adds an undercurrent of social criticism to the genre. Cary Grant appeared in a number of filmed drawing-room comedies. Ernst Lubitsch was especially known as a director of drawing room comedies. Living room In Western architecture, a living room , also called a lounge room ( Australian English ), lounge ( British English ), sitting room ( British English ), or drawing room ,
648-400: The term living room for the room then commonly called a parlo[u]r or drawing room , and is sometimes erroneously credited with inventing the term. It is now a term used more frequently when referring to a space to relax and unwind within a household. Within different parts of the world, living rooms are designed differently and evolving, but all share the same purpose, to gather users in
675-476: The traditional drawing room performance and back into main street theater and film. While the drawing room itself has fallen out of favor, the play format has continued to provide a source of entertainment. Drawing room comedy typically features wit and verbal banter among wealthy, leisured, genteel, upper class characters. Drawing room comedy is also sometimes called the " comedy of manners ". Oscar Wilde 's 1895 The Importance of Being Earnest and several of
702-443: The way that Japanese culture believed in warming the person, instead of the home. This consisted of owning a portable hibachi for cooking needs rather than heating needs, meanwhile people in the UK and New Zealand used fireplaces to warm the space and not for cooking needs. Japanese cultural belief systems affected their design characteristics in the way that ornamentation should be minimal while incorporating natural elements. Until
729-418: Was rarely used within the household. He had promoted the new name to encourage people to use the room in their daily lives as a gathering space. Interior designers and architects throughout time have continuously studied users within a space to design to best fit their needs and wants. King of France, Louis XIV ’s Palace of Versailles can be considered having one of the most lavishly decorated living rooms in
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