This is a mint condition certificate issued
by Hotel George V, the luxury hotel in
Established in
1928, the Art Deco landmark closed its doors in October 1997 for exhaustive
renovations, and opened in December as the rebranded Four Seasons Hotel George
V. The new owner, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of
Not everything from the earlier George
V merited saving. "Having been redesigned maybe four or five times over
the years, the hotel had become a pastiche," Rochon notes. "We were
criticized in the French press for auctioning off so much—there were ten
thousand lots—but much of it was beyond repair or simply mauvais gošt."
The designer cites a dressing table in Marlene Dietrich's favorite suite. It was
worth $1,985 to a fan, but nothing to Rochon as a decorator. And so it went
with a pair of Staffordshire spaniels from Greta Garbo's room, a baby grand
piano played by Duke Ellington, and the cane bed on which the Beatles had their
1964 pillow fight, famously recorded by photographer Harry Benson.
Luminaries from all over the world stayed at the hotel. Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Gene Kelly, Gary Cooper, Vivian Leigh, Sophia Loren, President Gerald Ford, John Wayne…The Society of Nations (precursor to the United Nations organization) established temporary quarters there, just like General Eisenhower at the end of World War II.
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