Study
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, living spaces in affluent bourgeois households where the host received male guests were referred to as gentlemen's rooms . The separate use resulted, among other things, from the fact that this room was smoked.
The furnishings were usually representative and luxurious, the furniture mostly dark wood, with large, comfortable armchairs and small tables. Often there were also memorabilia from the owner of the house. B. to the military or student days, often items that were related to a hobby, such as hunting trophies. The men withdrew here after dinner to discuss issues over tobacco and alcohol consumption that women could not or should not have a say, such as politics and economics. From the point of view of the housewife, on the other hand, the master's room offered the advantage that smoking could be restricted to this room in most cases, thus protecting expensive curtain and furniture fabrics as well as wallpaper in the other rooms from odor and discoloration from tobacco smoke. The dark interior of the master's room also meant that the corresponding discoloration was hardly visible here.
Nowadays, when men want to be among themselves, they tend to retreat to restaurants, while study rooms in large houses have become recreational rooms, in which activities such as billiards , which are typically associated with men, are pursued.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Herrenzimmer , accessed on November 22, 2017
