Parlour
Videos
A parlour is a reception room or public space. In medieval Christian Europe, the "outer parlour" was the room where the monks or nuns conducted business with those outside the monastery and the "inner
The Parlor of the Nuns at San Zaccaria, by Francesco Guardi, 1745-50
A Greek Revival parlour in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Makart-style parlour, by Georg Janny
Living room
Videos
In Western architecture, a living room, also called a lounge room, lounge, sitting room, or drawing room, is a room for relaxing and socializing in a residential house or apartment. Such a room is som
Parlour
…English-speaking countries. The secondary functions of the parlour for entertaining and display were taken up by various kinds of sitting rooms, such as the living room in North American usage and the drawing room in British countries. Despite its decline in domestic architecture, the term parlour continues to have an…
A Tudorbethan sitting room in the UK.
A California tract home living room, with a kitchen behind a permanent space divider, 1960.
Louise Rayner, Tudor Style Interior at Haddon Hall, UK, 19th century.
Miller House, Mid-century Modern, Columbus, Indiana, 1953–57, "Conversation Pit".