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Question: Why is a drawing room called so? We don't draw painting in this room then, we do call it drawing room? (Asked by Ayaz Ahmad Awan) Answer: In England (around the 17th century), after dinner, the men of the house used to assemble for wine and cigars or just linger on in the same room. The women would withdraw to a different room called the withdrawing room, for obvious reasons. The word ''drawing room is just a crude change of the original withdrawing room
The drawing table used to be a frequent companion to a pedestal desk in a gentleman's study or private library, during the pre-industrial and early industrial era.ery often a drawing table could look like a writing table or even a pedestal desk when the working surface was set at the horizontal and the height adjusted to 29 inches, in order to use it as a normal desk. The only giveaway was usually a lip on one of the sides of the desktop.