In the end, Mr. Carr says, his firm hopes to create an interior that harkens back to the hotel's Deco roots, but is chic and trendy enough to draw today's customers.
WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand
Whether they can pull it off and turn the hotel into a Deco moneymaker for a new era will have a lot of influence on how much the city government and others invest in renovations of other Deco structures.
WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand
For instance, Shanghai city officials pressed the state-run company that owns the Peace Hotel, an Art Deco icon, to undertake a multimillion-dollar renovation.
WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand
It is well-known for bringing derelict buildings back into use, most notably the famous Art Deco Midland Hotel in Morecambe, Lancashire, and Fort Dunlop in Birmingham.
The filmmaker famous for Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive has lent his name to a signautre suite at the Hotel Lutetia, an Art Deco Left Bank establishment that has given haven to the likes of Josephine Baker, the sculptor Arman and Charles de Gaulle on his wedding night.
The centerpiece is a waterfront district known as the Bund, lined with majestic art deco buildings such as the newly restored Peace Hotel.
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Developer Capital and Centric has applied to acquire the art deco building on Edge Lane and turn it into a hotel.
Located in the key Connaught Place business district, the hotel is revered for its blend of Victorian, Colonial and Art Deco design touches, modern conveniences and impeccable service.
One of the clearest examples of the Shanghai Deco style is the old Bank of China headquarters building next to the Peace Hotel on the Bund.
WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand
The hotel, renamed the Langham Yangtze Boutique Shanghai, has 96 rooms and suites and features new Deco-inspired interiors -- along with modern amenities such as a spa.
WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand
The hotel -- with a tower topped by a sharply pitched pyramidal roof -- became the Art Deco trendsetter for Shanghai as soon as it opened its doors in 1929.
WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand
While making a name for itself as the newest boutique hotel in the South Beach Group collection, its artful location in the heart of Miami's Art Deco district will leave you wondering if you might bump into Don Draper himself.
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