The Archive · 1929

Bedrooms and Suites

The 200 bedrooms and suites are on the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh floors, and from the sinallesb single room to the most luxurious suite they offer the last word in comfort, Each has its separate bathroom and the suites have two, besides their sitting and dining rooms, and service rooms. 'The furniture varies little in any of them, save as to style, and it is all of @ class worthy of the most: select hotel in the world, 'The nine' suites have each a style of their own—English, Old English, Chinese, Japanese, Futuristic, ete—and the designers even went the length of putting on skilled Chinese and Japanese workmen to en suite that! the rooms accredited to their res. Peetive countries were complete to the smallest detail, It goes without saying that the Kitchens are of the most up-to-date design and in them there presides a celebrated French chef, with number of other siilled' foreign. assistants, who between them practically all the preparation of meals, Such trifles as bells, telephones, ete, seem hardly to call for notice, but, wherever he is in the hotel, a guest need do little more than stretch out his hand for such things, As was to be expected, the architects wiscasuou all thought of the old types of heating and ventilation and installed the latest scientific apparatus by which the incoming air is washed in a fine water spray-and its humidity and temperature adjusted so that every: day, climatically, is a pentect day and here iso call For fans

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