First Class Smoke Room Furniture

[Brian R Peterson]

Hi All!

I was wondering what color the furniture was in the First Class Smoke Room, I have seen it hinted that it was green, and that Olympics was brown but I have no of distinguishing which was which.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Brian

 

[Daniel Klistorner]

Brian,

Olympic's color illustrations show her 1st class Smoking Room's furniture green. It was hinted that Titanic's was brown or burgandy.

Daniel.

 

[Jeremy Lee]

Was the green furniture on the Olympic there since 1911, or was it from a later refit?

 

[Daniel Klistorner]

Jeremy,

It was there all along. There are 1911 color illustrations and 1920 ones. Both show green furniture.

Daniel.

 

[Brian R Peterson]

I knew the furniture on Olympic was green from said illustrations, I have both in the form of period postcards.

However the same illustrations are re-labeled Titanic as well and this was source of my initial confusion.

Ken Marschall, in his cutaway painting of Titanic, has the Smoke Room furniture and carpet green and the Lounge furniture red with a light pattern floor, and this was cause of more confusion, from what I have gathered they should be the other way around, not to detract from Marchall's excellent work of course just as a general statement.

Best Regards,

Brian

 

[Jeremy Lee]

Then they decided to give the Titanic's Smoking Room furniture a different colour or what?

Thanks.

 

[Daniel Klistorner]

Jeremy,

They obviously did use different colors in the Smoke Rooms, but they kept the colors in the Lounge Room the same on both ships.

Ken's work is excellent, but as I have learned, usually when doing it, he was working with limited information, which is known today, but was not know then, which is why some of his work has errors. My guess for the Lounge's colors in the cutaway, is because of the color scheme used in the room today. During Olympic's life it was green, now they have red carpet and lighter furniture, so Ken worked with those colors.

Daniel.

 

[Brian R Peterson]

Hi Dan,

I figured that was the case, I myself almost used the current color scheme of the Lounge in a few of my works, its easy to base work on what you can rather than what you cant.

Best Regards,

Brian

 

[Brian R Peterson]

Hi All!

Here is my completed rendering, it is quite stunning - unfortunately it lost a lot of sharpness of the original when I had to reduce its size and quality for posting

Best Regards,

Brian

 

[Michael H. Standart]

Nice work there, Brian. Now about all we need is for somebody to pass around the Cohiba Double Caronas!

 

[Brian R Peterson]

Why thank you Michael!

I also recently completed a similar view of the Olympic's Smoke Room

Best Regards,

Brian

 

[Michael H. Standart]

Do you have a website somewhere Brian? Some of your recreations have been on the large side which makes posting all of them here impractical because of the size constraints. A site of your own would be a good place to post everything you've got.

 

[Daniel Klistorner]

All,

It's hard to say, but I think Titanic's Smoke Room would have looked better with green furniture after all. Who knows, maybe they did stick with green rather than burgandy.

Daniel.

 

[Jeremy Lee]

But anyway, both the green and red would match the surrounding decor.

 

[Nigel Bryant]

Hi,

Nice illustration Bryan- Keep up the good work.

Regards,

Nigel