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For a specific cue sport like pool, there are 6 pockets, 1 on each corner of the table and the other 2 on the sides. Others will point to the level of skill, training, and strategy involved in pool to argue that it is, in fact, a sport. I speak to the manager and he tells me that he doesn’t quite know when billiards first began in Bogotá, but that for more than forty years, ever since the club first opened, the sport has been played here every day. It is evident that they are here to have some fun: to get away from the routine of the city and to relax after a week of work while they stand over a wooden table, trade stories, remember former days and listen to songs of salsa, carrilera and vallenato. Eran Chen of ODA Architecture devised the layout of this expansive family residence in New York City. "The good thing about the ‘Club de Billares Londres’ is that people come here from all over the city from every social class, rich or poor, to drink or to play, and no one gives you a dirty look, the kind that asks you what you are doing here.

They ask me if the photos will come out in magazines such as People or Semana. If a player runs out of time, it will be a standard foul. Pocketing the eight ball on a legal break shot is not a foul. With each successful shot it changes, and judging by the tables the game generates, things can get pretty crazy. The roof of the club conserves traces of the Republican, early 19th century-style house that once was inhabited by some Spaniard or Creole, and which has come back to life thanks to the legendary game of billiards. Decorator Amy Lau hung a circa-1970 chandelier from Rewire Gallery above the Blatt Billiards pool table in this Manhattan triplex; an Arredoluce floor lamp is paired with an Olivier Mourgue double lounge chair, both from the ’60s. The pool table in the top-floor lounge of decorator Laura Santos’s Manhattan townhouseis by Blatt Billiards, and the cement floor tiles are by Exquisite Surfaces. In this Manhattan duplex decorated by Roger Thomas, the game room is anchored by a Blatt Billiards table and features two Picasso paintings. The question is, should the asker specify the table in which the game is played in addition to the name of the game?

A Massimo Vitali photograph hangs behind an antique pool table in the billiard room of a Montana home designed by Michael S. Smith. Anyway, what is billiards the idea behind French billiards is to score points by bouncing your own cue ball off your opponent’s cue ball and a secondary object ball in a single shot. The lounge of this California home decorated by Steven Volpe includes a pair of 1940s French chairs by Marc du Plantier, a black marble mantel by Axel Vervoordt, and twin ’50s floor lamps by Gino Sarfatti. In a billiard room designed by Robert Couturier, a Zaha Hadid sofa for Sawaya & Moroni and pair of vintage Italian armchairs complement a reproduction by Lutyens Furniture & Lighting of the original billiard-table light. The stairway shines with the reflected light of small mirrors that decorate the passage leading up to a second floor. The light tends to be flat, giving the place a special atmosphere - private - almost intimate where the only grip on reality is the sound of the music and the laughter of a group of men and women mingling in a corner.

A pool table, an Art Deco light fixture, and a 1930s French oil painting strike perfect period notes in the paneled billiard room of a New York home decorated by S.R. Shown: The library of a Beverly Hills, California, home decorated by Waldo’s Designs is furnished with pendant lamps of the firm’s design, 19th-century English paintings, and an Art Deco billiard table. Antique billiard lamps shine on the pool table in a Pennsylvania home decorated by Penny Drue Baird. Worsted wool is the more expensive option and delivers a more consistent playing surface that professional pool players need.It’s also known as ‘speed cloth’ because of how it affects the balls and it won’t pill as easily as woolen cloth.However, it’s not usually found on home tables and only reserved for professional tournaments or serious pool rooms. While the color has no actual impact on the quality of the felt or how well it helps the balls to perform, people might like to choose one that matches their decor or gives the table a professional look. You might have even seen it being played and not even realized it, as seems to be true with most varieties of billiards, at least in my experience anyway.