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The rise and fall of the smoking room, from essential feature to long-gone relic
The apotheosis of this plan is Cardiff Castle, where William Burges’s remodeling of the Clock Tower in 1869–73 for the then bachelor 3rd Marquess of Bute incorporated two smoking rooms, for winter ...
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High society! A trip inside the ostentatious, drug-inspired smoking room of the world’s richest man
A must-have for the Victorian gentleman was a room where he and his male friends could go for a smoke. In his Welsh home, Cardiff Castle, Bute actually had two smoking rooms within the the ...
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This Fairytale Castle Is in the Middle of an Underrated UK City — and It Hosts Movie Nights, Concerts, and Festive Markets
Though it's almost 2,000 years old, Cardiff Castle is a vibrant pop-culture ... There’s a winter smoking room, the Moorish fantasy Arab room decorated in $11 million of gold leaf, and a clock ...