Smoking Room
by Michelle Meenawong
Title
Smoking Room
Artist
Michelle Meenawong
Medium
Photograph - Metal Print
Description
A smoking room is a room which is specifically provided and furnished for smoking, generally in buildings where smoking is otherwise prohibited.
When the Crimean War during the 1850s popularized Turkish tobacco, smoking gained in fashionable popularity but was considered indelicate. After dinner in a large private house, the gentlemen might retreat from the ladies to a smoking room, furnished with velvet curtains and decorated to masculine tastes (wealthy owners would often choose Turkish themes and weapons collections), and replace his tail coat with a comfortable velvet smoking jacket and cap. The velvet was intended to absorb the smoke, to avoid contaminating other rooms and clothes.
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