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Hotel Palace Grillroom Renovation

Project type

Interior Design

Date

1917

Location

Shanghai

Authory

Lafuente & Wootten Architects

Former Adress

The Bund

This is an interior renovation project where he uses the most luxurious materials of the time, almost always using wood and wrought-iron lamps. It is an interior of a clear neoclassical style
Remarkable details of the reform are the Solomonic columns in the decorative niche on the right side of the photo. The representation of naked torsos painted on the buttresses between various access stairs to the tea room. The eclectic mix of historicist elements from different regions in a single space makes it something evocative and striking for the time.
The Spanish-American duo did the interior design for the ground-floor renovation being the Grillroom. It is a long space at the side of the street level facing the Bund windows.
He never built a new building for this hotel company while working for them for a decade. The reason why Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels Ltd. (HSH) never allowed him to build was because of his nationality.

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