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Fig. 5           Fig. 6
 The exterior of the rotunda shortly after the inauguration of the hotel in 1908.   Plan of the main body of the public rooms in 1908 with the dining room to the north
 A genuine masterpiece of interior design by the architect Eugène Jost, the   and the lobby to the south. The simplicity of the basic layout is counterbalanced by
 extraordinarily opulent decor of a kind never seen before in hotel architecture,   complex access routes, perspectives and points of view.
 was unfortunately removed during renovations in the 1970s.
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