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Middle-class drawing room in Blackheath, London, 1841, painted by James Holland. 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.
Shoin (書院, drawing room or study) is a type of audience hall in Japanese architecture that was developed during the Muromachi period. [2] The term originally meant a study and a place for lectures on the sūtra within a temple, but later it came to mean just a drawing room or study. [3] From this room takes its name the shoin-zukuri style.
The main reception room is characterized by specific features: a recessed alcove , staggered shelves, built-in desks, and ornate sliding doors. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] Generally the reception room is covered with wall-to-wall tatami and has square beveled pillars, a coved or coffered ceiling, and wooden shutters to protect the area from rain ( 雨戸 ...
A design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns, including art nouveau. Syrian arch In American architecture, esp. Richardsonian Romanesque, an archway that begins at the ground, rather than being set upon a supporting pedestal. [C.f. Richardsonian Romanesque: Syrian arch] Systyle
The second largest room on the ground floor, after the Great Hall, was the original drawing room, which is used as the hotel's main dining room. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Also on the ground floor is the library, panelled in cedar wood, which the Astors used to call the "cigar box", [ 2 ] :181 and, next door, Nancy Astor's boudoir , which is used by the ...
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The principal rooms are contained on the first-floor piano nobile behind the west-facing garden façade at the rear of the palace. The centre of this ornate suite of state rooms is the Music Room, its large bow the dominant feature of the façade. Flanking the Music Room are the Blue and the White Drawing Rooms.