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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.
It was originally built around 1790 for John Pinney, a wealthy sugar merchant and slave plantation owner, and is now furnished and displayed as a typical late 18th century town house. The period house museum includes a drawing room, eating room, study, kitchen, laundry and housekeeper's room.
In the 18th century, ... Since the 20th century, a typical tertulia has moved out from the private drawing-room to become a regularly scheduled event in a public ...
Japanese minimalist interior living room, 19th century. In Western architecture, a living room, also called a lounge room (Australian English [1]), lounge (British English [2]), sitting room (British English [3]), or drawing room, is a room for relaxing and socializing in a residential house or apartment.
The interior follows a typical 18th century pattern, with entrance hall, drawing room, dining room and library. [1] The house is a Grade I listed building. [5] The stable block, with attached coach houses, stables and a barn, is also listed Grade II*. [7] The stables have been attributed to John Carr. [1]
The late 18th century drawing room is furnished with examples of Cape furniture. A bureau cabinet of stinkwood and chestnut (height 252 cm, width 133 cm, depth 70 cm) was made in the Cape of Good Hope (1750–1760) with Cape silver keyplates dating from circa 1800. [26] [28]
The earliest known use of the noun drawing room is in the mid-1600s, with the earliest evidence of drawing room appearing in 1635, from a Victorian-era memoir titled Steward's Household Accounts.
The family might take some meals in it, though the great hall was the main eating room. In modest manor houses it sometimes also served as the main bedroom. Evidence of chamber blocks separate to the hall can be seen as far back as the 10th century, for example in the excavated manor at Sulgrave, Northamptonshire. [1]