Billiard room

[2] Interior designer Charlotte Moss believed that "a billiard room is synonymous with group dynamics.

[4] The earliest mention of pool as an indoor table game is in a 1470 inventory list of the accounts of King Louis XI of France.

[4] Following the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, billiard rooms were added to some famous 18th-century cafés in Paris and other cities.

[5] Although billiards had long been enjoyed by both men and women, a trend towards male suites developed in 19th century Great Britain.

[5] Mark Twain's billiard room in Hartford, CT was decorated with quasi-Moorish stencils.