They eat in a corner of the darkened drawing room.
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The Queen uses the Crimson Drawing Room for private events.
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It's quite often the stuff of racy Aunt Edith's drawing room.
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Inside, there's a formal drawing room and a state dining room.
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To the left of the foyer is a large drawing room.
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After all, manzanilla is for the seashore, not the drawing room.
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Doors in the Terracotta room lead to the White Drawing room.
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The Duke and Duchess are pictured in Green Drawing Room, Windsor Castle.
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The ground level of the house include a large formal drawing room ...
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A drawing room leads to a summer terrace and gazebo for summer dining.
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But Greenberg has never limited himself to the strictures of the drawing room.
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John and Hermann speak in soft, measured voices made for drawing-room deliberations.
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The windows of the Crimson Drawing Room look out onto the Berkshire countryside.
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The drawing room in Berlin was one place where they told their stories.
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The first showed the royal couple in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle.
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Aside from the clothes, these dames belong in a London drawing room, circa 1780.
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Even in my mother's drawing room there was never any talk that wasn't proper.
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On Thursday evenings, he paints during dinner in the hotel's restaurant, the Drawing Room.
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I also have a larger one, a vertical portrait, downstairs in our drawing room.
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It is often very funny, with some moments paced like a drawing room comedy.
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There are three additional bedrooms, all with painted wood ceilings, and a drawing room.
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The Crimson Drawing Room is only open to the public during the winter months.
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It's about the storms that can rage among three people in a drawing room.
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The two formal group portraits were taken in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle.
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"Austenian", to some, brings up associations of ironic social commentary and eloquent drawing-room heroines.
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The look is more 21st-century Danish living room than Victorian-era English drawing room.
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You will see a tacky, cheerful simulacrum of a classically creepy English manor drawing room.
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A Spitfire airplane, sputtering blue smoke, smashing through the walls of an English drawing room.
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The White Drawing room was used by prime ministers for private use until the 1940s.
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Accounts of a social event in a "drawing room" noted that the ice cream was plentiful.
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Many of these paintings spent a century crisscrossing the country, from one drawing room to another.
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It was dark in the drawing room, a welcome respite from the May heat of Gorakhpur.
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The drawing room walls are painted with murals of notable works of architecture and monuments. Mrs.
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The most notorious dive bar in the area would be the Drawing Room in Los Feliz.
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Elizabeth's desk stands in the center of the drawing room, facing a bank of tall windows.
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His drawing-room sex comedy, "Smiles of a Summer Night" (0003) was a hit at Cannes.
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Having requested an informal drawing-room wedding, he then steered clear of that room for months.
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In his hands, the conventions of the drawing-room comedy became the framework for social analysis.
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The couple plans to release official photos of the baptism, taken in the Green Drawing Room, later.
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The National Gallery of Canada acquired Vilhelm Hammershøi's "Sunshine in the Drawing Room (Solskin i dagligstuen)" (1910).
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The 494-square-foot drawing room has a notable molded ceiling and floor-to-ceiling sash windows.
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"It was like a drawing room in which someone has suddenly made a bad smell," Diaghilev wrote.
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Groggy and grumbling, Usama went to the drawing-room window to see what the ruckus was about.
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I thought of that story one morning last year, sitting in a small drawing room in Berlin.
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If the Piazza San Marco is Europe's drawing room (to quote Napoleon), All'Arco is its neighborhood tavern.
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In the drawing room, terra cotta-red Roman blinds attenuate the strong Mediterranean sun to a pinkish hue.
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The presidency publishes almost daily pictures of 74-year-old Buhari receiving visitors in his London drawing room.
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American dealers moved the salon from the drawing room and transformed it into a kind of public offering.
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The third portrait shows the queen with her daughter Anne, the Princess Royal, in the castle's White Drawing Room.
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The living space, or as the listing says, the "drawing room," has wood floors and access to the garden.
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And as Lindsay might say, such things are best left unsaid, as one sips coffee in the drawing room.
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The lower level also has a bedroom, drawing room, full bath with limestone tile, guest bath and laundry room.
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Her portrait hangs in the mansion's drawing room, a scarf around her head and a dagger at her side.
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Gosford Park, a multi-Oscar-nominated 2001 drawing-room mystery, written by Julian Fellowes and directed by Robert Altman.
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Guests usually arrive in the early afternoon, with tea and snacks served in the White Drawing Room at 4 p.m.
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I've come to sit on the floor in the sunshine in the drawing room, to listen to what they're saying.
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The four-story castle includes a reception hall, a music room, a ballroom, a library, and a gold drawing room.
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When Knightley first professes his love to Emma, it's not in a drawing room but under a lushly blooming tree.
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The group in the drawing room included two doctors, a therapist, a seminarian, a computer scientist, and a philosophy student.
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"It is often very funny, with some moments paced like a drawing room comedy," Michael Gorra writes in his review.
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On the upper floor are two more bedrooms and a bathroom, as well as a drawing room with a stone fireplace.
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Walls are decorated with fashionable art, rather as the aristocracy used to hang a Canaletto or Rembrandt in the drawing room.
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From 1923 until 1987 two large pieces of furniture blocked the doors leading from the Drawing Room into the Smoking Room.
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The above photo, taken by photographer Chris Allerton in Windsor Castle's Green Drawing Room, featured senior members of the royal family.
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The main entry, on the ground level, opens to a drawing room anchored by a fireplace with a decorative wood mantel.
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The R.S.S., which maintains that India is fundamentally a Hindu nation, has been barreling toward drawing-room respectability for some time.
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The ground floor of the house has a central drawing room and wings that contain a small dining room and a parlor.
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Torn between despair and violent longing, I was obliged to rise from my sopha and take a turn around the drawing room.
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Altogether, it's got six bedrooms, four bathrooms, two kitchens and dining rooms, a reception hall, a sitting room, and a drawing room.
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One Ian Thomas ensemble on display in the Crimson Drawing Room at Windsor comes from a visit to the U.S in 1976.
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"The more I find in this house — it's all just love stories," she says in home's the sun-filled White Drawing Room.
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Freud's favourite, "The Italian Woman" by Corot, hung in his drawing room and was visible through a double-door from his bed.
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Among the most impressive rooms in the older part of the property is the grand drawing room of approximately 700 square feet.
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His drawing room becomes his orangerie, where he says he can find a little rest, breathing all the beauty on the walls.
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The house has eight bedrooms, four bathrooms, a drawing room, a ballroom, a state dining room, a sitting room, and a library.
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" Of Mr. Hare's screenplay, he wrote that everybody "talks in the same peculiar mixture of prissy clichés from bad drawing room comedies.
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The two appeared against a platinum-textured backdrop, a hint at the 70th anniversary, in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle.
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Gone are the napkins tortured into swans and the postprandial triage that shunted women to the drawing room while men dealt business.
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He was ushered up to Wordsworth's study, which served also as the family's dining room, the children's playroom, and the drawing room.
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Their demure presence, like that of the maiden aunt in the corner of the drawing room, are, paradoxically, vivid markers of distrust.
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In the first half, set in a large drawing room, the women are attired in full-length ball gowns, with heeled shoes.
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The White Drawing Room has been the setting for Queen Elizabeth's annual Christmas broadcasts as well as the backdrop for formal family photos.
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The portraits were taken in the Green Drawing Room and show just how much fun these two were having on their big day.
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The 3 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home is the perfect bachelor pad -- spectacular city views, a circular drawing room, pool, and awesome cliffside lawn.
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Three years later, Diana Mitford and Oswald Mosley were married in a small, private ceremony in the Berlin drawing room of Joseph Goebbels.
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The main house features a reception hall and a drawing room with a large bay window, pine floors and a carved marble fireplace.
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The gallery leads to the main public spaces — a formal dining room, an enormous drawing room and a library — lined up enfilade style.
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The next stop is the red Drawing Room, where the staff has already laid out the presents on trestle tables for each family member.
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Now, in a 30-year-old amber collection, scientists have found the earliest ancestor of those famous drawing-room mystery poisons, strychnine and curare.
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Seated on a sofa in Windsor Castle's White Drawing Room, Princess Anne, 65, poses with her mother for their first new portrait in decades.
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Gale's generally nimble language is alternately as breezy as an E.M. Forster drawing room and as unyielding as the pre-climate-change Canadian north.
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The next stop is the red Drawing Room, where the staff has already laid out the presents on trestle tables for each family member.
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The home's main entrance opens to a large reception hall, with several nearby additional reception rooms, including a drawing room and a living room.
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Is my time more valuable going after these people who have no business ethics or is my time more valuable in the drawing room?
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Can't stand those drawing-room mysteries where a corpse is lying in the parlor as twits sip mah-tinis and engage in lighthearted banter.
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The profane, chaotic shenanigans that concluded this season of "Veep" look as decorous as drawing-room comedy next to the actual American presidential campaign.
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Bedroom reading is, Williams reminds us, very different from reading in the drawing room, or on public transport (the stage coach, at this period).
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Among them: six marble fireplaces, inlaid wood flooring, intricate moldings, wrought iron and brass balustrade, and tall ionic columns that frame the drawing room.
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Beyond the sitting room is a drawing room paneled in pine, with built-in bookshelves and a stone fireplace with a carved pine surround.
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It also contains occasional germs of the subtle drawing-room comedy that in the nineteenth century constituted such a crucial development for the novel.
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The recurring colors and patterns from the walls of the drawing room reappear on the upholstered modules of the library furniture, unifying the two rooms.
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The kind of theosophy popular in America around this time would normally go on in your drawing room, in the woods, or an artist's community.
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We're not trying to turn it into something it isn't, but I think we're away from the drawing room mystery, and we're into something [else].
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She was accompanied by artist Stuart Brown as well as members of the RAF for the viewing in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex with the Bridesmaids and Page Boys, taken by photographer Alexi Lubomirski in the Green Drawing Room of Windsor Castle.
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Jingjianguangyuan BiotechIf you're going to book time at this health and wellness center (which is complete with a drawing room), make sure to call ahead.
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The gorgeous photo, shot by British photographer Matt Holyoak, was taken in the White Drawing Room at their home of Windsor Castle in early November.
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Oscar emulated these events—notably in his drawing-room dramas, where style was paramount—but also in his salons, named "Tea and Beauties", in London.
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Again, it all seemed personal, parochial and petty, playing out in the news media as Jacobean revenge tragedy or drawing-room farce, take your pick.
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Ms. Paul remembered when, as an art student at the Slade, she first saw Mr. Freud walk into the life-drawing room in the basement.
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And who but an aristocratic British bloke would decorate the space with chandeliers, armchairs, Oriental rugs, lacquered chests, flickering candles and other drawing-room accouterments?
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The walls are draped in red velvet dappled with gilt-framed paintings, giving the impression that we are all guests sharing a sumptuous drawing room.
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Not that it seems so strange immediately; the first of its three parts takes place, like many period stage works, in a deluxe drawing room.
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The task of colleges and universities is neither to produce a pure, unregulated market of ideas nor to champion the civility of the drawing room.
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The butler makes do serving dinner, and afterward the guests find themselves unable to leave the drawing room, again for reasons that are not explained.
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In his 1944 play No Exit, the French existentialist thinker Jean-Paul Sartre trapped three strangers together in a drawing room and called it hell.
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The bride, walking with the President, and preceded by her six bridesmaids, came down the wide flight of stairs leading from the third floor to the second and across the large foyer hall at the rear of the Parish drawing room, through wide doorways and on to a large mantel at the west side of the Ludlow drawing room, where the ceremony took place.
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The five-bedroom main residence boasts a library, fireplace, drawing room, living room, family room, dining room and even a chef's kitchen with professional-grade appliances.
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It normally means opening a small cafe, and charging pensioners £15 to wander around the drawing room before trying to flog them a commemorative biscuit tin.
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The insatiable American appetite for British drawing-room comedy is well nourished in "The Roundabout," a revival of J. B. Priestley's 1932 comedy at 59E59 Theaters.
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Sitting in his drawing room, with books piled up around us, many of them about World War II, I wanted to hear his thoughts on Brexit.
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"The Perplexed" is a drawing-room play, literally — it is set in a lavish home library of an unseen, Jewish billionaire host, Berland Stahl — and figuratively.
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But society requires them to remain civilized, embroidering in the drawing room to the sound of booming cannon fire on the battlefield beyond the seminary's gates.
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Guests will have a chance to view 19 State Rooms, including the White Drawing Room, of which the Royal Collection Trust shared a photo on Instagram Thursday.
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Man Ray's "La Prière" commanded $100,000 price tag while Annie Leibovitz's portrait, "Queen Elizabeth II, The White Drawing Room, Buckingham Palace, London" is still up for grabs.
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In the second picture, she sits with her two youngest grandchildren and five great-grandchildren in the Green Drawing Room, part of the castle's semi-State apartments.
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The other two are also above the fireplaces in the drawing room and in what is the family's media room, or den, though the artist is unknown.
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Emily Maitlis, who visited the Queen's residence to interview Prince Andrew, says staff were preparing the south drawing room for a movie night while she was there.
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It is a drawing room drama about a family who has lost all touch with not just working people but anyone outside of its own inner sanctum.
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Two years later, Mr. Beard and Mr. Surmain teamed up to teach cooking classes, starting in the drawing room of the Surmains' townhouse on East 50th Street.
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"You will get the opportunity to explore iconic rooms you know so well from Downton Abbey, such as the Drawing Room and the Library," the listing notes.
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Described as "perhaps the grandest of all the State Rooms in Buckingham Palace," the White Drawing Room is often used for audiences with the monarch and small gatherings.
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In an image released by the palace, while Meghan sits on the floor of the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, Harry sits on an emerald green couch.
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You can see the Chinese Drawing Room in more of its lavish detail in this video walk-through from Leeds Museums & Galleries, with James Lomax, curator of collections.
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Recklessly swirling around the drawing room in a backless green frock, her blond hair a tangle of Medusa curls, Ilona is the hurricane force within this teacup drama.
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The family stood together in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle after the couple's fairy tale carriage procession, for the historic shot by fashion photographer, Alexi Lubomirski.
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This elevated drawing-room play creeps up on you, body slams you to the ground and delivers a final shot that will stop your heart for a moment.
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A rear staircase leads up to two guest bedrooms and a second-floor drawing room of approximately 480 square feet, which has exterior steps down to the garden.
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In the aftermath of the French, American and Industrial Revolutions, a newly rich clientele clamored for the ultimate drawing room accessory to emphasize their entry into high society.
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On the ground floor, there is a large drawing room, a dining room and an English country-style kitchen with a vintage Aga stove and two antique chandeliers.
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Behind a brown-stained plywood wall, a simulacrum of an eighteenth-century drawing room, McTeer was being strapped into a corset that fit over her light-blue gown.
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The royal mom walked into the White Drawing Room with William and Harry in a pretty blue Temperley London dress, which showed off a hint of a baby bump.
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The royal family's Instagram account released a high-speed tour of the complex route staff members would take to navigate from the kitchens to the Palace's Chinese Drawing Room.
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The State Rooms feature 19 areas, including the Throne Room, Ballroom, Grand Staircase, and the White Drawing Room, where the Queen receives visitors, according to the Royal Trust Collection.
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The 31-by-21-foot drawing room, detailed in gold and featuring a Louis XV mantel of Breche d'Alep marble, was perhaps her favorite room, according to Ms. Chase.
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It's a bit like a sex farce with real sorrow instead of slammed doors, and something like a drawing room comedy with moral conundrums peeking out beneath the cushions.
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It was filmed in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, with the queen sitting at a desk decorated by family photographs, a picture released by the palace shows.
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Barbara's parents divorced when she was 9, and her mother married S. N. Behrman, a writer at The New Yorker, a screenwriter and a playwright of drawing-room comedies.
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Last summer, the royal family's Instagram account released a high-speed tour of the route staff members would take to navigate from the kitchens to the Palace's Chinese Drawing Room.
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On Monay, the royal family's Instagram account released a high-speed tour of the route staff members would take to navigate from the kitchens to the Palace's Chinese Drawing Room.
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Visitors will see some remaining elements of the famous "glass drawing room," designed by the acclaimed architect Robert Adam for the duke of Northumberland; it once featured green glass pilasters.
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Inside the imposing, high-ceilinged rooms I gazed at décor replicated from the Brownings' era, including stiff Victorian furniture, drawing room walls of sea-foam green and heavy red curtains.
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The arresting portrait, snapped in the Green Drawing Room of Windsor Castle, is one of three taken at the Queen's famed residence on March 28 by famed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz.
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Was the show's critical guardianship – embodied by Cowell, unrivaled as television's voice of ironic British scorn until Maggie Smith entered the drawing room on Downton Abbey – at odds with the public?
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The opening "Rebel Heart," a miserable stomper, gallops steadily, as the pealing guitars and mournful horns chase the song down, while the pittering piano in "Postcard" could occupy a drawing room.
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For Lee Radziwill, he clad the drawing room of a soigné neo-Georgian house in London in a wondrous multipatterned explosion that invoked both the Ottoman Empire and Raj-era India.
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As the cowboy crooner Hobie Doyle, a Western actor shoehorned into a prim drawing-room comedy called "Merrily We Dance" (another film within the film), he made off with entire scenes.
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LONDON — In the annals of television interviews, a drawing-room chat with a 91-year-old woman, watching home movies and offering occasional droll remarks, would not seem like edgy stuff.
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The voting process, which took place between August 26 and September 9, allowed fans to choose between a Guest Room, Drawing Room, Bathroom or an updated remodel of the existing Hall.
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So on a cold morning late last year, we settled onto plush couches in the dimly lit drawing room of the Greenwich Hotel in New York, warmed by a raging fireplace.
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More friends file in, and soon the drawing room looks fit to burst with their hopes and secrets, hanging before us like the armada of art on Fefu's bright-green wall.
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Included in the 229 "individually styled" bedrooms are two suites, a relaxing drawing room "with beautiful views" over the Pentland Firth to Orkney "and a warm Highland welcome," according to the website.
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So that I think that we stayed further away from drawing-room mystery in the sense of a board game, and more into this kind of terrifying encounter with danger and death.
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The drawing room exuded a sort of Victorian upper-class taste — Persian rugs, carved chairs, a gilt-framed portrait of a fair-skinned woman in a flouncy dress, holding a chubby baby.
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In contrast to Yar'Adua, whom officials cut off from the world on his sickbed in Saudi Arabia, the presidency publishes almost daily pictures of Buhari receiving visitors in his London drawing room.
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The photo, shot in May, was staged at the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle — prior to the final night of the Queen's 90th birthday celebrations at the Royal Windsor Horse Pageant.
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"The portraits, by British photographer Matt Holyoak of Camera Press, were taken in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle in early November," Buckingham Palace stated on the royal family's official Instagram.
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Of the canonical three, personally, I will go to bat for both Austen and for Charlotte Brontë — witty women and sad men having charged conversations in the drawing room, sign me up.
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One of their stranger traditions — though at least it's in keeping with the family business — is that at midnight after a wedding, everyone comes together in the special family-only drawing room.
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According to the property's website, it also boasts a friendly in-house staff and classically styled spaces like a drawing room, billiards room and elaborate dining room (talking tea cups sadly not included).
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The cellist has recorded some of Julius's charming, late-Romantic music, and the certificate of his gold-medal award from the Moscow Conservatoire now hangs on the wall of Mr Isserlis's drawing room.
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"Our drawing rooms are filled with overfed aristocrats who have no idea what real is," he announces to a drawing room full of overfed aristocrats who have no idea what real life is.
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In a snap also taken in Windsor Castle's Green Drawing Room featuring the adorable bridal party, Harry takes a seat on the sofa while Meghan sits on the floor in front of him.
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An image from the broadcast (above), which was circulated in a press release from Buckingham Palace, shows Her Majesty sitting in Windsor Castle&aposs Green Drawing Room, surrounded by photos of her family.
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Hall has designed ceramics, lamps and furniture sold by the department store Liberty, and turned Talisman's New King's Road antiques showroom into the Disco Drawing Room, with Murano fish suspended from the ceiling.
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Called, of course, Line and curated by Drawing Room—a UK-based non-profit gallery dedicated to contemporary drawing—the exhibition explores the work of 15 international artists and their exploration of the line.
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He looked effortlessly dapper as he settled into a sofa beside a fireplace in the drawing room, which looked like a den in a viscount's country estate with its oil portraits and crystal chandelier.
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He appeared in a 100-seat theater, in a drawing-room set, with a deck of cards, and, for two hours, reduced the wise and blasé of the metropolis to a state of astonishment.
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Ready or Not, on the other hand, has been marketed more like an Agatha Christie drawing-room mystery, with cartoonish aristocrats romping around an old-timey mansion filled with secret passages and loyal servants.
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It was a sign the gloves were off in the so-called salotto buono, or drawing room, the informal club that has pulled the strings in Italian business and banking since World War Two.
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"I'm Welsh originally but left there when I was 18-19 to come to London," Ms. Hutton said recently in the drawing room where the class-conscious Lady Violet frequently chastised butlers and visitors alike.
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Before they leave the following day, the guests can also expect breakfast and a private tour of the grounds that will highlight rooms "Downton Abbey" fans know well, including the drawing room and gallery bedrooms.
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Next Friday, a partially recreated Hamilton Palace drawing room, about 29.7 feet high, will be unveiled at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, along with the family's portraits, gilded dinnerware, perfume bottles and toothbrushes.
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The slow pace of 19th-century novels and memoirs is perfect for an insomnia machine: You fall asleep when the characters are having dinner, and when you wake up they've only reached the drawing room.
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According to the Royal Collection Trust, the gilded mahogany couch was part of the furniture supplied to King George IV between 1827 and 1829 for the library, which is now the castle's Green Drawing Room.
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Photographs of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and the cleaner's grandchildren were propped at random behind ornaments on the drawing-room mantelpiece; there were sacks of birdseed on the teak sideboard in the dining room.
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The queen wore a cocktail dress in ivory silk with pastel blue, white and gold lame overlay designed by Angela Kelly for the broadcast, which was recorded in the White Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace.
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The sunshine-yellow-walled, epically swagged drawing room of Nancy Lancaster's apartment above the former location of the London interior design firm started by Sibyl Colefax and John Fowler never strays far from his consciousness.
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On their official Instagram page, Harry and Meghan, known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, shared two official photographs of the occasion taken in the Green Drawing Room and the Rose Garden at Windsor Castle.
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The remodel will replace The Hall in the Tudor Manor, and fans will have the opportunity to choose from new room options including a guest room, bathroom, drawing room or a revamp of the original hall.
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Two fellows' offices face the scholar courtyard — nice that they're not in a corner or the basement — and mark the entrance to the Drawing Room and Study, where frosted skylights are folded over a pitched roof.
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Her style might be described as the intersection of the drawing-room music of 19th-century pianists (Moritz Moszkowski and Cécile Chaminade) and 20th-century blues pianists of African descent (Meade Lux Lewis and Mary Lou Williams).
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" Mr. Schock resigned his House seat in March 2015 after he came under fire for lavish spending, including an opulent redesign of his Capitol Hill office that was reportedly inspired by a drawing room on "Downton Abbey.
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DUTIES MAY INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: • Conducting estate tours of 10 people — and no more — from the small library to the big library to the drawing room to the smoking room to … you get the idea.
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Painted by artist Ben Sullivan, the portrait features the Queen sitting in a drawing room in Windsor Castle, wearing a light blue dress and pearls, with her trusty black Launer London handbag sitting beside her on the floor.
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Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are pictured on their wedding with all of their children (L-R) Prince Harry, Prince William, Laura and Tom Parker Bowles, in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, April 10, 2005.
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In 1799, at a party in a second-story drawing room in Bristol, England, a motley crew of poets, philosophers, scientists, and doctors sat around in their powdered wigs and pantaloons and sucked nitrous oxide from a bag.
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These gorgeous wooden structures, designed to occupy the corners of your drawing room or boudoir, are built around the patented horn-loaded speaker technology of company founder Paul W. Klipsch, which gave the company its original raison d'être.
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As whimsical as some of these contraptions appear — especially rendered in such striking colors — they are rooted in Dellschau's keen following of the serious ongoings in the real world of aeronautics that stretched beyond his isolated drawing room.
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In 2014, BOMB published a folio of her work, New York's Drawing Center and London's Drawing Room included her in a joint exhibition, and the American poet Patrick Durgin penned a thoughtful appreciation of her oeuvre for Jacket2.
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Devotees of the mind-cleansing "Arrigo Programme" no longer need to journey to her Somerset cottage for a four-day retreat; anyone can now book in for a swift London session hosted in a plush Victorian drawing room.
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There is a terrific moment of chaos when the guests first try to leave the drawing room; the ondes martenot (an early electronic instrument with a theremin-like quality) slides down several octaves with the entire string section.
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In a photograph released to the media of the group chatting in a drawing room before dinner, a rocking horse could be seen, as well as a fluffy Portuguese Water Dog toy given by the Obamas to Prince George.
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While Meghan sits on the floor of the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, Harry sits on an emerald green couch, a couch that he sat on once before in another photograph marking an important milestone in his life.
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"We unpacked it with enormous excitement, finally with Nelly's help carried it into the drawing room, set it on its stand, and discovered that it was smashed in half," wrote Virginia Woolf on the afternoon of 24 April 1917.
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Richard Kay, who first reported Holly's passing in the Daily Mail, said that she has been buried at a spot in the garden that the Queen can see from the window of her drawing room at the Scottish castle.
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And his delivery of the line "I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do" has the sarcastic drip of a drawing-room melodrama and also carries the disinterested vibe of a polite sociopath.
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Substandard here does not mean that the dream of an antique Chesterfield set for the drawing room has yet to be achieved, or that the Persian rug could do with a shampoo since the purebred spaniel peed on it.
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In fact, the room at Windsor Castle served as the setting for Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's formal wedding portraits, while the White Drawing Room at Sandringham Estate is where the royal family gathers for tea and snacks on Christmas Eve.
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The 4,000-square-foot, 6-bedroom property in Oxford, England — listed at $5,866,000 — features "a 173-foot drawing room [that] benefits from triple aspect windows and double doors opening on to the garden," reads the listing from realtors Breckon & Breckon.
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Private equity backed IntegraMed is also targeting millennials -- with a boutique-style urban New York clinic that offers a stylish waiting area with a juice bar, video-streaming services in the blood drawing room and easy financing options through LendingClub.
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Taken in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle after the royal couple's magical carriage procession, the portraits were shot by fashion photographer, Alexi Lubomirski, who took the couple's dreamy engagement photos at Frogmore House in Windsor late last year.
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Only the glass of Montrachet offered to a visitor, or the glimpse of a Braque in the drawing room (Braque, a friend, had also fallen for the Camargue), hinted that Mr Hoffmann could have led a different, self-centred life.
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The heart of the hotel, the wood-paneled second-floor lobby called the Drawing Room, doubles as both a work space with a library table and book-filled shelves and a social setting with conversation areas around the enormous fireplaces.
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Did Napoleon really have his own seesaw in his drawing room, and did he and Betsy ride on it for 45 minutes while he, in a turban and white dressing gown over white pants and shoes, read Corneille to her?
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"A Woman of No Importance" is a strange hybrid of drawing-room persiflage and he-done-her-wrong potboiler, while "The Lady From the Sea" seems to straddle two genres, mystical fable and social realism, that Ibsen usually kept apart.
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On the third floor of the old school building, its auditorium has been converted into a kind of reading lounge, with the stage intact, comfy furniture, an eclectic library, and a nifty trompe l'oeil depiction of a posh drawing room.
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Viscount Ashworth lived a riotously debauched life before he was bound hand and foot in silken restraints and hacked to death upon his own luxurious bed in C. S. Harris's latest drawing-room mystery, WHO SLAYS THE WICKED (Berkley, $26).
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Over this past week, the WhatsApp forwards have doubled, then tripled in number and bled out from Green Living to family groups, video calls with my mother, phone calls with my in-laws, chats with friends, Twitter and drawing room conversations.
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He makes his way into her drawing room and hides with her behind a fireplace screen in an isolated nest, while on the other side of the screen Emma's father calls for the servants to protect him from a draft.
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" Calling herself a "connoisseur of survivors," Gelb wrote that of all the Holocaust survivors she knew Kosinski was both the most damaged—"psychically and physically"—and the most candid about it: "starkly in his fiction, wittily in the drawing room.
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DRUMNADROCHIT, Scotland — In the second-floor drawing room of a modernized Victorian schoolhouse on Bunloit Estate in the Scottish Highlands, the furnishings are plush, the indoor temperature is comfortable and the views over Loch Ness, about 1,000 feet below, are expansive.
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Many of Plas-yn-Cwm's public rooms — including a sitting room, a drawing room, a dining room and a study on the ground floor — have 14-foot ceilings, as well as architectural details like intricately molded cornices, plasterwork, window seats and wood paneling.
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With dark wood paneling and burgundy accents, Shu — opened in 2014 by Sally Zhu and her husband, Xingyu Huang, who also is the chef — vaguely resembles a men's-club drawing room, as long as (oops!) you disregard the office-style drop ceiling.
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The show was staged in the drawing room of a mansion in Mayfair alongside a decadent afternoon tea, and Mr. Olowu guided guests through the collection, which married his signature geometric and floral prints with a 1940s-leaning silhouette anchored around the waist.
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In November, at the industrial Toronto waterfront that's cluttered with film studios, Ms. Gadon and Edward Holcroft, who plays the young doctor trying to unearth Grace's memories, were seated in the drawing room of a Victorian manor, their "session" bordering on flirtation.
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Saki, the pen name of H. H. Munro (1870-1916), began his writing career as a light-penned political satirist and advanced into a peerless series of brief, perfectly composed tales that unleashed the demons of anarchy into the Edwardian drawing room.
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Sitting at a piano in the drawing room is Kjartan Sveinsson, one of the original four musicians in Sigur Rós; he had left the band a year or so earlier, to work on his own music, and he collaborates frequently with Ragnar.
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Yet "The Investigation," a star-studded dramatic reading of sections of the report, adapted by the playwright Robert Schenkkan and staged at Manhattan's Riverside Church and live-streamed Monday night, opens with an episode of drawing-room, or rather dining-room, farce.
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And there's yet another detail about Philip's heritage that's on display in the new portrait: the painting he is seen standing in front of, which depicts Queen Victoria sitting with her family in Windsor Castle's Green Drawing Room, was painted by Laurits Regner Tuxen.
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The wife of King George IV started things off with a glass of Dubonnet and gin before lunch, which was usually served in the drawing room or out in the garden when weather permitted at Clarence House, where she lived from 1953 to 2002.
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A New York Times article last year described the office as being decorated like a drawing room from "Downton Abbey," and said that with his "buff physique and natty wardrobe," Mr. Schock had cultivated an image that was more about lifestyle and less about lawmaking.
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Perovskaya's portrait holds pride of place in the main drawing room, a legacy of her Soviet heroic status, and her family name has been given to a local sparkling wine, said Larissa P. Biryukova, a tour guide who led a recent swing through the museum.
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Our house was big, but I did my best to include all the rooms on the first floor—kitchen, dining room, breakfast room, library, drawing room (a funny name for the room where the adults sometimes played cards), living room, two powder rooms, and bar.
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"My Darling Detective" picks up in Halifax roughly 30 years later, and its opening scene is almost as dramatic as Capa's image: Bernard's widow, Nora, walks up the aisle of a hotel drawing room where the photograph is being auctioned and splashes it with ink.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 1827, when Lady Isabella Hertford finally installed the hand-painted Chinese wallpaper the Prince of Wales had gifted her two decades earlier, she thought it didn't have enough pizzazz for her drawing room at Temple Newsam in Leeds, England.
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In both portraits, everyone was well coordinated with their backdrop: Meghan and the bridesmaids carried bouquets filled with greenery that matched Windsor Castle's Green Drawing Room, while the red outfits William and Kate's page boys wore matched the red walls of the the Buckingham Palace throne room.
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For instance, she understands that the living room is called the drawing room; knows the words for jeera (cumin), haldi (turmeric) and atta (flour); can talk about cricket; fetch music from Bollywood films; tell stories from the ancient Panchatantra children's fables; and more, the report also noted.
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Among the images in Van Der Zee's portfolio, all from before World War II, are a formal portrait of an affluent, middle-aged woman sitting in a sumptuously appointed drawing room, and a genteel, nude young woman illuminated by the soft glow of a mock fireplace.
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The claim that it's uncharacteristic for Austen has some truth to it: It's not the witty drawing room comedy of manners she's known for, but rather the thoughtful work of a writer at the height of her powers, beginning to engage with the Romantics writing all around her.
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Its author, one Captain H. M. Raleigh, detailed how a framed print of the hippo in his drawing room had an effect so powerful on him and his family that they considered the hippo an oracle of sorts: a bright blue beast they consulted before making any major decisions.
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When it arrives for late-night performances in Manhattan this weekend, the cast members will make themselves at home on sets used for current productions at the Anne L. Bernstein Theater (the Victorian drawing room of "Perfect Crime") and the Barrow Street Theater (the clinical environment of "The Effect").
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While it brought opprobrium upon his friends and family in Russia, it also gave an extra fillip to the sensation caused by his dancing, his long hair, fierce expression and sexual allure — "like a predator let loose in a drawing room," one British critic wrote of his performance.
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The drawing room at Ham Yard has a gorgeous French fireplace and a fine period wood secretary; the walls are covered in a seemingly wild assortment of Kemp's fabrics — orange, green, yellow, turquoise; the walls are lined with bookcases (and books) and hung with old plates and prints.
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The reception hall on the ground floor connects three rooms: the drawing room straight ahead, with views of the lake from twin bow windows; a dining room on the left, which fits a table that can seat up to 14; and a family room, also on the left.
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Having scored a West End triumph in 2011 with his masterful production of Mr. Rattigan's "Flare Path," Mr. Nunn has created on this occasion a text that draws from "Love in Idleness" and "Less Than Kind" to honor the writer's drawing-room wit, as well as his sociopolitical bent.
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In a first round of renovation, she knocked down a wall to create an open fireplace of stone and blasted oak in the drawing room, which she painted pale lemon yellow and filled with sofas upholstered in a geometric print by David Hicks and white-painted rattan furniture.
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Holding onto the right hand of his dad Prince William, 2-year-old Prince George – standing tall on a stack of foam blocks – shows off a huge smile and the famous Cambridge cheeks in a shot taken last summer in the White Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace and released on Tuesday.
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On Saturday, the newlyweds released four new portraits from their big day: two group shots taken in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, one candid black-and-white photo of the couple in the Scottish Stage Coach and a photograph taken just before the evening reception at Royal Lodge.
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Then there's the dilemma faced by director Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes), a specialist in sophisticated drawing room drama who's suddenly saddled with teaching rope-twirling cowboy actor Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) how to make refined dialogue effortlessly trip off his tongue as if he'd lived in Mayfair all his life.
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Today, the main house, which has conservation protection from Historic England — a public body that looks after the country's historic environment — has been renovated, with a 21.95-square-foot kitchen, as well as a 280-square-foot drawing room and a 300-square-foot dining room on the first floor.
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In a must-see interview recorded inside the Blue Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace on Thursday, the Duke of York talks at length about his involvement with the 66-year-old millionaire, who died by suicide in jail in New York City in August while awaiting trial on multiple sex charges.
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For several days thereafter, no one is able to leave or enter; as discomfort soon becomes danger (the drawing room isn't stocked with food or water), the respectable façade of this polite society quickly dissolves, despite appeals to reason by Doctor Carlos Conde and the ever-gracious host, Edmundo de Nobile.
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Yes, that includes Tatum's singing and dancing, Gene Kelly style, but it's also reflected in the drawing room drama Fiennes directs (and attempts to keep on track), or Johansson bursting from beneath the waves in a mermaid tail, or Clooney staring, in awe, at the face of Christ in an old-style epic.
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In a sit-down interview with BBC Newsnight anchor Emily Maitlis recorded inside the Blue Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace on Thursday, the Duke of York talked at length about his involvement with Epstein, who died by suicide in jail in New York City in August while awaiting trial on multiple sex charges.
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When I think of Katharine Hepburn's Jo, in George Cukor's delectable "Little Women" of 1933, what I remember is not her chatter, as raucous as a raven, but her impromptu fencing match in a drawing room, or the galumphing rumpus she makes when, at her mother's call, she clatters down the stairs.
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In addition to the multi-generational photo, the palace also released two other portraits taken by Leibovitz: The Queen with her beloved dogs Willow, Vulcan, Candy and Holly – she poses with them on the castle's East Terrace – and a photo taken in the White Drawing Room at the castle of the Queen and her daughter Anne, 65.
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Urrutia, sitting in an austere drawing room full of lacquered furniture on the ground floor of a mansion built in 1900 and bestowed to the club by one of the city's historic trading families, described how the club lost defensive midfielder Javi Martínez to the German giant Bayern Munich a year into his presidency in 2011.
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"The idea of the uptight, paranoid, nervous Englishman makes me laugh, and there is a great pleasure in playing that kind of character," said Nighy, who spends much of the movie positioned next to the fire in his drawing room, protected from the draft by screens whose choreographed positioning and repositioning makes them almost a character unto themselves.
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Those featured include the Throne Room, where Prince William and Princess Kate posed for official pictures on their 2011 wedding day, the Picture Gallery, which holds the largest collection of Canaletto paintings in the world, the Ballroom and the White Drawing Room, where viewers can see the famous secret door that the Queen uses to retreat back to her private apartments.
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In a moment of high surrealism in the '30s, he laid artificial grass in his London drawing room, and in the '60s, zapped his suite at the St. Regis hotel in New York with off-white linen spattered with aniline dyes (in what could be read as a homage to Jackson Pollock or, as one critic suggested, a murder scene).
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The bedroom is painted a soft duck-egg blue to match the gilt-edged 18th-century wood panels that he's installed along the wall facing his bed; the living room is a rich butter yellow inspired by the famous ocher drawing room of one of McNanney's design heroes, the Virginia-born decorator Nancy Lancaster, who popularized the 1920s English country-house style.
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In making the case for Jackson as a herald of Friedan and others, Franklin doesn't say much about Jackson's humor—which is a pity, because one of her most distinctive and appealing characteristics is a tendency to interleave unheimlich atmospheres and dark portraits of psychological breakdown with bursts of spry drawing-room comedy, droll Mitfordian dialogue, and the odd joke about eating children.
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In 2012, she published an essay in the Times Book Review called " The Second Shelf ," in which she complained that books about women's lives are often treated as a niche, trivial genre, shunted to a separate section of the bookstore, much as women used to be hustled off to the drawing room after dinner so that men could smoke cigars and talk seriously of the world.
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This winter saw restoration work to architectural details in the foyer of the mansion, where the two front rooms, the drawing room and the dining room on the first floor have been restored and now offer a fascinating record of the Jay family's accomplishments and influences, including an 508 manumission document freeing a slave and a 506-foot-long genealogical chart of the Jay family.
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Even the detective fiction that seems most untethered from real-world concerns—those British country-house puzzles in which ladies in drop-waisted frocks and gentlemen in evening dress gather in the drawing room to hear a sleuth dissect the murderer's devious plot—murmurs of class and history: the wealth necessary to staff such a house, the far-off lands where Colonel Mustard earned his insignia.
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The audience is split into four groups, each making its way through four parts of Fefu's house: the drawing room, a whimsical kitchen, a lawn bedecked for a game of croquet, and—thanks to a glass floor—a dismal basement where Julia (a brilliant, unnerving Brittany Bradford), who's been physically incapacitated for reasons that are unclear to her friends, carries on a conversation with someone unseen.
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That is partly Shaw's doing: In establishing the "pretty and amiable voluptuaries" assembled in the peculiar, ship-shaped house in the Sussex countryside where the play takes place, he is simulating the moral vacuum that allowed bosses like Mangan to thrive, and that helped create the conditions for World War I. That vacuum is represented theatrically by the drawing-room-comedy conventions that set the plot in motion.
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The mercantile purse of the Seven Kingdoms, the opportunistic and matriarchal flower-people of House Tyrell have always been a great adversary for the Lannisters and the fact that last season ended with Margaery and Loras in chains, Lady Olenna royally pissed, and Mace freestyling at the Iron Bank means the rivalry between Westeros' two most bourgeois houses is about to go from a loaded drawing-room comedy to a balls-out War of the Roses.
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I grew up in a succession of moderately grand houses where the nicest rooms were the ones no one was allowed to use: the drawing room with its dustless ornaments and immaculate cream-colored sofas, the spare room where the mahogany furniture gleamed and the white bedsheets were always crisp and clean, the study with its unread leather-bound volumes, as forbidding as if it were conserving the memory of someone important who once worked there.
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The Whitby Bar & Restaurant, an all-day spot that offers breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and cocktails; a small but well-equipped gym; a 130-seat movie theater with screenings on Sunday afternoons, open to both guests and the general public (guests can attend for free; tickets for non-guests are $15); and a small drawing room with an honesty bar where guests can pour themselves a drink and request that it be charged to their room.
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