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Salon ( from the French salon [ salɔ ] to Italian salone, " great hall" ) refers to a drawing-room, a representative reception room or a room in a private home or a more intimate, quiet space of a hotel.

The spatial concept as the origin

The detectable only in French for the 1664 word " salon " is the result of language development and was created for a large, richly decorated, pillared hall, which often consisted of two floors. Otherwise, visitors were welcomed in rooms with names such as " cabinet", " alcove ", " chambre " etc.. , The " Blue Saloon " of the Marquise de Rambouillet was called at that time simply " chambre bleue ".

Salon term was applied first for entertainment and representation spaces ( " salons de reception " ) in castles; at Versailles there is, for example, the "Salon de la Paix " or the "Salon de la Guerre ". Around the middle of the 18th century, also smaller, more modest and intimate spaces were called salons. Also, the interaction was more stressed: the " salons de reception " were called now " salons de compagnie " or " salons d' assemblie ". This form of purpose reflected the tendency toward social equality there traffic forming people.

In the German language the spatial Salon term replaced in the period around 1800 also in bourgeois circles, the term " common room ".

Extension to the salon sociability

The extension of the purely spatial salon concept to the so-called " conversation lounges " was associated with the 1737 in the " salon carré " of the Louvre regularly scheduled art exhibitions. These were referred to as " salon " with no additive, so that the term in this context, both included, the spatial condition and the cultural, aesthetic occasion. For salon societies this form of designation, however, was used until the 19th century. So you only spoke in retrospect of the great literary ( Literary Salon ), artistic (salon music), philosophical or mundane " salons " of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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