The 1st class Smoke Room

The Titanic's 1st class Smoke Room was a gorgeous public room, reserved mainly for 1st class men on the Titanic.  The paneling was darkly stained mahogany inlaid with mother of pearl.  It was lit from ornate chandeliers and wall sconces with stained glass windows lit from behind setting the ambiance.  A fireplace with an beautifully carved marble mantle and painting by Norman Wilkinson of the entrance to Plymouth Harbor called, "Approach to the New World" were at the center of the room.  It was furnished with comfortable leather chairs and chairs topped with green baize fabric which rested on top of linoleum red and blue tiles.  After dinner, it was customary for the men and women to retire to separate rooms for conversations and gossip before joining each other again.  For the men, they would typically go up to the Smoke Room where the space was open late into the night.  There were some late night card games and conversations on the evening of the 14th of April when the Titanic struck the iceberg.  Afterwards, it became a busy room where people stayed to get warm and wait to decide what to do.  Thomas Andrews was reportedly seen at one point in that room, though contrary to popular belief, it wasn't the last place where he was seen.  William Stead was also seen in that room during the sinking.  Unfortunately, the room was obliterated during the break up and subsequent implosion of the stern.  There are pieces of it on the ocean floor including tiles, stained glass windows, sconces, and chandeliers, some of which have been recovered.  Items do still exist from the RMS Olympic's 1st class Smoke Room which had an almost identical room to the one on the Titanic with the exception of the color scheme on the Olympic being green and blue rather than the red and blue on the Titanic.

Above are items from my collection which related to the 1st class Smoke Room.  The background is a copy of one of the stained glass windows.  The piece of wood on top is a cross section of the ceiling arch tray of the RMS Olympic's 1st class Smoke Room.

The next item is an original C.R. Hoffman photographic postcard of the RMS Olympic's 1st class Smoke Room, showing the room in all her beauty. 

The next items are original WSL playing cards.  The only cards we know for sure were used on the Titanic looked like the one on the far left.  Examples were saved by certain card players on board.

The final item is a section of green baize fabric which was used on top of the tables in the 1st class Smoke Room of the Titanic.  This fabric section came from a larger piece which was taken as a souvenir from Harland & Wolff during the Titanic's construction.