It would be quite a hard choice to pick my favourite period style. Allow me note down all the styles first among with a counter of how many times each style was represented onboard the Titanic (sitting rooms included):
Style | Amount |
Harland and Wolff bedroom B style | 31 |
Harland and Wolff bedroom A style | 14 |
Empire | 6 |
Louis XVI | 5 |
Modern Dutch | 4 |
Georgian | 4 |
Adam | 3 |
Louis XIV | 3 |
Italian renaissance | 2 |
Queen Anne | 2 |
Old Dutch | 2 |
Louis XV | 2 |
Regency | 1 |
I made a breakdown of which special stateroom was in which style on every deck down below with a count:
A-deck (promenade deck)
Style | Stateroom number | amount |
Harland and Wolff bedroom B style | A-36 and A-37 | 2 |
B-deck (bridge deck)
Style | Stateroom numbers | Amount |
Harland and Wolff bedroom B style | B-65, B-66, B-71, B-72, B-77, B-78, B-83, B-84, B-89, B-90, B-93, B-94, B-95, B-96, B-97 and B-98 | 16 |
Harland and Wolff bedroom A style | B-55, B-56, B-75,B-76, B-87 and B-88 | 6 |
Louis XVI | B-52 (sitting room with oak panelling), B-58 (Damask panelling) and B-81 (with oak panelling) | 3 (2 with oak panelling and one with white and silk damask panelling) |
Modern Dutch | B-57 and B-63 (with sycamore panelling) | 2 (1 one with sycamore panelling and 1 with oak panelling) |
Empire | B-54 (White and gilt panels) and B-64 (White and silk damask panels) | 2 (1 with white and gilt panelling and 1 with white and silk damask panels) |
Adam | B-51 | 1 |
Italian Renaissance | B-53 | 1 |
Old Dutch | B-59 | 1 |
Queen Anne | B-60 | 1 |
Georgian | B-69 | 1 |
Louis XIV | B-70 | 1 |
Louis XV | B-82 | 1 |
C-deck (shelter deck)
Harland and Wolff bedroom B style | C-69, C-71, C-73, C-76, C-78, C-80, C-87, C-91, C-93, C-94, C-98, C-100 and C-102 | 13 |
Harland and Wolff bedroom A style | C-59, C-61, C-66, C-68, C-85, C-89, C-92 and C-96 | 8 |
Empire | C-57 (white and gilt panels), C-67 (white and silk damask panels), C-83 (white and gilt panels), C-84 (white and gilt panels) | 4 (3 with white gilt panels and 1 with white and silk panels) |
Georgian | C-77 (white panelling), C-81 (with walnut panelling)and C-86 (walnut panelling) | 3 (2 with walnut panelling, 1 with white painted panelling) |
Louis XIV | C-62 and C-75 | 2 |
Adam | C-64 and C-90 | 2 |
Louis XVI | C-63 (with white and silk damask panels) C-88 (oak panels) | 2 (1 with white and silk damask panels and 1 with oak panels) |
Modern Dutch | C-70 (oak panelling )and C-74 (with sycamore panelling) | 2 (1 with oak panelling and 1 with sycamore panelling) |
Regency | C-55 | 1 |
Queen Anne | C-65 | 1 |
Old Dutch | C-72 | 1 |
Italian renaissance | C-82 | 1 |
An interesting thing to note is that the following styles came in different variations (with variations I mean different panelling and furniture, sitting rooms are excluded here):
Empire: Had a total of 3 different variations onboard. One variation with brass beds and white and gilt panelling (B-54 occupied by Mr. Ismay and C-83 occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Harris), one variation with mahogany beds (C-57 occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Straus and the unoccupied C-84) and a final variation with white and silk damask panels and different mahogany bedsteads with a canopy above it (B-64 and C-67, the damask was in the color pink in B-64 and blue in C-67).
Louis XVI: Had a total of 2 variations. One with oak panelling and oak beds (B-81 which was possibly occupied by the Ryerson family, but still uncertain and C-88 occupied by Dr. Frauenthal and his wife) and one variation with white and silk damask panels and brass beds (B-58 occupied by the Baxter family and C-63).
Modern Dutch had a total of 2 variations. One with oak paneling and brass beds (B-57 possibly occupied by the Ryerson family and C-70, occupied by John “Jack” Borland Thayer (however some state C-66)) and one variation with sycamore paneling and beds (B-63 again possibly occupied by the Ryerson family and C-74).
Georgian also had a total of 2 variations: one with white painted paneling (B-69 occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Hays and C-77 occupied by the
countess of Rothes and her niece miss Cherry) and one variation with Walnut paneling (C-81 (which portholes among with the private bathroom are part of the raised “Big piece” and C-86 occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Douglass.)
The beds could differ trough in the Harland and Wolff bedroom B style stateromsven trough the paneling remained.
A-deck (promenade deck)
Mahogany Colt beds | A-36 and A-37 |
B-deck (bridge deck)
brass | oak | Mahogany |
B-83, B-84, B-89 and B-90 | B-65, B-66, B-71, B-77 and B-78 | B-93, B-94 B-95, B-96, B-97 and B-98. |
C-deck shelter deck
brass | oak |
C-87, C-89, C-91 and C-93, C-94, C-98, C-100 and C-102 | C-69, C-71, C-73, C-76, C-78 and C-80 |
It is very hard to pick my favourite style on-board since there are a total of 13 period style of which some had different variations onboard. If I really had to choose I would pick the Harland and Wolff bedroom B style with mahogany colt beds like A-36.
Yours sincerely,
Thomas