Failure to make contact with a red ball constitutes a foul, which results in penalty points being awarded to the opponent. Note, too, how the Nathanson residence has in that room a red carpet that anticipates the red felt of the billiard table. The view we have of the Nathanson room with the pool room woodwork is so swift and abbreviated that it seems Kubrick intends no conscious notice that it shares that same woodwork, but it does, and thus Kubrick creates a connection between the two households, that connection also remarked upon with the red carpet that anticipates the pool table's bright red felt. But the style of windows of the above building--one pane of glass--doesn't match any of those viewed out the two windows in the supposed corner room of the supposed Lanesborough Royal Suite room used for a pool room. As noted above, I've repeatedly read that the billiards scene was filmed in the Royal Suite of the Lanesborough Hotel (once a hospital) in London, the Royal Suite being so exclusive that it's located in a secret location in the hotel that isn't even known but to a few of the hotel's employees.

I've never seen the location of the Nathanson shoot discussed, and if people have been able to pinpoint the billiard room scene as being the Royal Suite at the Lanesborough, I'm assuming that if the Nathanson shoot was there as well then this would also be known. Cut to shot 500 which shows the interior of the pool room and Victor crossing to receive Bill at the door. When Bill is on his way to the Nathanson's in the cab we see FIRE LANE on the street in such a way that LANE is the word that makes a most lasting impression in the shot. But perhaps this bit of lore exists for a reason as it ties Bill and Alice's bedroom with Victor's home and with the Nathanson home. I've seen two photos reputedly of the Lanesborough Royal Suite, one a sitting room and the other a bedroom (I've yet to see anything remotely similar to the pool room in Eyes Wide Shut) and both have floor to ceiling windows, which Victor's pool room does not. There is not a cut-away shot when the maid exits the room. In shot 499 the butler leads Bill down this hall to the closed door of the pool room.

The room is not the same room and the doors are not the same doors, but the interior woodwork is exactly the same in both the Nathanson apartment and the pool room. They have come to mean the same thing in the minds of the general public. As can be seen in the image below, the woodwork at Victor's is the same as briefly observed at the Nathanson residence when Rosa answers the door for Bill. The pool room is a corner room with two windows, the one beyond the sofas and the one seen behind a ship model. It is one of those Kubrick rooms that is impossible, and Kubrick even presents the impossible room as being in two different locations in the apartment. However there are key differences between a billiards table and a pool table, and knowing the difference is important while you shop for the right one for you.

While pool tables are also often made with a solid wood frame, what is billiards there are lighter-weight models available for those who may want to place their table in storage at times. Individual World Championships usually take place every two or three years. That building is one facing Grosvenor Crescent and Duke of Wellington Place. The table must be able to withstand the pressure of the balls hitting one another and the side rails. If a player commits a table scratch, the opposing player takes over with ball in hand anywhere on the table. If one takes a look at the Lanesborough's surroundings in Googlemaps, there is one but building which could possibly provide a view of a building with close windows. Nowadays people are becoming more and more self-conscious, they are of the view that they shall start a healthy lifestyle. Regardless of when and by what route it reached the British Isles and the British colonies in its recognizable form, croquet is, like pall-mall and trucco, among the later forms of ground billiards, which as a class have been popular in Western Europe back to at least the Late Middle Ages, with roots in classical antiquity, including sometimes the use of arches and pegs along with balls and mallets or other striking sticks (some more akin to modern field hockey sticks).