The Ritz London, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Charles Mewes & Arthur Davis, 1906. View of the Ritz Hotel, club and restaur

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Swiss hotelier Cesar Ritz, the dismissed former manager of the Savoy Hotel, opened the hotel on 24 May 1906. The building is neoclassical in the Louis XVI manner, built during the Belle Epoque to resemble a stylish Parisian block of flats, over arcades that consciously evoked the Rue de Rivoli. Its architects were Charles Mewes, who had previously designed Ritz's Hotel Ritz Paris, and Arthur Davis with engineering collaboration by the Swedish engineer Sven Bylander. It was the first substantial steel-frame structure in London.

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