"salon apartment" is a term linked to the exclusive apartments built as part of multi-family houses in belgrade and in certain towns in yugoslavia in the first decades of the 20th century. the structure of the apartments included centrally located anteroom with a combined function of the dining room and one or more salon areas. most of these apartments were built in belgrade (serbia), along with the first examples of apartments popularly named 'salon apartments', with the concept of spatial and functional organization later spreading to other larger urban centers in yugoslavia.