"This is a homecoming for us, " explains one of the company's general managers, Paul Tchen, standing in the magnificent grand foyer, where locals come for tea dances overseen by Beaux Arts friezes along the walls.
As for the foyer: The dark plastered walls are going to be covered up by leather graphite-colored panels to lighten the space and the LED star is going to be exchanged for a more subdued photograph of a tree.