Smoking room

Under a smoking room (also smoking ) refers to a separated room for smoking tobacco. An older, slightly more gentlemanly, expression is fumoir (from French fumer, smoke ') The name fumoir in Switzerland is still the common term for it.

History

The first fumoirs emerged with advent of tobacco culture in the 17th century as one of many areas with special functions in stately homes. They were generally furnished with comfortable upholstered furniture for the promotion of casual conversation, often gaming tables or billiard were present. After dinner, the men moved - tobacco was initially used coffee for ladies a taboo - in the smoking lounge back and held her there Tabakskollegium from without bothering the ladies and their wardrobes with the blue haze. By the time you began to change with the entering of fumoirs the clothing, ie you took off his jacket and put on a special smoking jacket, the tuxedo (of English. smoke, smoke ').

With the advent of large catering fumoirs have been set up in Grand hotels and restaurants. Pioneer in Berlin in 1833, the Café Kranzler. Similarly, these rooms were soon the standard of the luxury liner, such as the Titanic and the luxury trains in the early 20th century.

In a departure from the twenties to the prevailing Plüschfauteuils the fumoirs Le Corbusier in 1931 designed a state of the art equipment fumoir in chrome and leather for the smoke compartments of the French railways; the associated chair, known as Cassina chair, has become a classic of modern furniture design.

Nowadays, smoking or to find in many public buildings, such as hospitals or airports

Terms of Use

Smoking in dining facilities subject to the German-speaking legal regulations. Since the Non smoking protection legislation in Germany and Switzerland, the federal states or cantons, a variety of specifications has arisen under which fumoirs are allowed. An overview of the individual provisions of the articles are non-smoking.

Alternative meaning

Smokehouse, a reduced form of the smokehouse, regionally known as Smoking and Curing.