Eighteen ways people say it

1 · The room

• They put the good chairs in the back and called it the fumoir.
• The fumoir was two lamps, a rug and a door that shut properly.
• We ended up in the fumoir until the kitchen closed.
• Her flat has a fumoir where a dining room used to be.
• Ask for a table in the fumoir, not the front room.
• The hotel kept the fumoir and lost the cigars.

2 · The venting space

• Three of us escaped to the fumoir to say what we actually thought.
• Every office needs a fumoir, and it is never the meeting room.
• He went to the fumoir to complain and stayed an hour.
• The fumoir is where the party gets honest.
• By midnight the fumoir had absorbed the entire guest list.
• Nothing gets decided in the fumoir, which is the point.

3 · The aesthetic

• The whole bar is very fumoir: oxblood, brass, one lamp.
• It was going fumoir until somebody switched on the ceiling light.
• She wanted fumoir and the builders gave her industrial.
• A single dark wall and it reads fumoir immediately.
• Fumoir lighting means 2200K and a dimmer, nothing else.
• That chrome stool is doing damage to the fumoir of it all.