Smoking Room Furniture & DesignNames do not make a difference! What used to be called a "den" is now called a smoking room. It offers the seclusion that a non-bookish man requires and that a bookish fellow finds in his library. Time was when this den was a dizzy conglomerate of Turkish corners and beer steins, college flags and crude mementoes that were better forgotten. Fortunately that day has passed. There is no reason why a man's private "think-shop" should be an offense against good taste. Give him comfort, convenience, and quiet, see that the place is not cleaned too often to disturb him, and you will find that he is amenable to counsel on what is proper for his room and what is not. I am thinking of one justly admired smoking room that both expressed its occupant's tastes and followed the principles of good decoration. The paper has a black background with a large, scrawly pattern in gray palm leaves. This was chosen to harmonize with gray and black Navajo rugs for the floor. The woodwork is painted gray and the ceiling a tone of lighter gray. The windows are small-paned casements, at which hang cherry taffeta curtains, a concession to the masculine penchant for red. One big chair is all over-upholstered in gray and black striped linen. Two small stools are upholstered in black pin stripe Sheraton velour. The smoking tables are painted crimson, striped in black and gray. In this smoking room hobbies are indulged. And that, after all, is the purpose of a smoking room. Something is radically wrong with the man who has no hobbies; and something is equally wrong with the wife who does not permit her husband a place to ride his hobbies. The smoking room is the legitimate place for the exercise of these masculine virtues. In the room I have just described the owner keeps collections of the following: Mongolian padlocks, arrowheads, ship models and old lights. And they fit in with the scheme of the room perfectly! Next Page: Entry Hall Furniture. | 