Andrea Pisano, here with a marble relief panel from Florence's campanile depicting the Greek sculptor Phidias at work, also made the first set of bronze doors for Florence's Baptistery, between 1330 and 1336.
While the public areas still wear their Dorothy Draper-era, retina-stinging magenta-and-emerald floral patterns, the 682 guest rooms have flat-panel TVs, granite-and-marble bathrooms, and feather-top beds.