The financial backers of the Ritz felt that they had secured one of the prime sites in London for their project. It was built on the site which had been the Old White Horse Cellar, which by 1805 was one of the best known coaching inns in England. Swiss hotelier César Ritz, the former manager of the Savoy Hotel, opened the hotel on. History Construction and early history The Ritz under construction in October 1905 The Rivoli Bar, built in the Art Deco style, was designed in 2001 by interior designer Tessa Kennedy to resemble the bar on the Orient Express. The hotel has six private dining rooms, the Marie Antoinette Suite, with its boiserie, and the rooms within the Grade II* listed William Kent House, which is temporarily closed from January 2023. It is an opulently decorated cream-coloured Louis XVI setting, with panelled mirrors in gilt bronze frames. The Ritz's most widely known facility is The Palm Court, which hosts the famous "Tea at the Ritz". Marcus Binney describes the great suite of ground-floor rooms as "one of the all-time masterpieces of hotel architecture" and compares it to a royal palace with its "grand vistas, lofty proportions and sparkling chandeliers". The interior was designed mainly by London and Paris based designers in the Louis XVI style. At the corners of the pavilion roofs of the Ritz are large green copper lions, the emblem of the hotel.
The facade on the Piccadilly side is 231 feet (70 m), 115 feet (35 m) on the Arlington Street side, and 87 feet (27 m) on the Green Park side. The exterior is structurally and visually Franco-American in style, with little trace of English architecture, and heavily influenced by the architectural traditions of Paris. In 2020, it was sold to a Qatari investor. In 2002, it became the first hotel to receive a Royal warrant from the Prince of Wales for its banquet and catering services. They spent eight years and £40 million restoring it to its former grandeur. Owned by the Bracewell Smith family until 1976, David and Frederick Barclay purchased the hotel for £80 million in 1995. Noël Coward was a notable diner at the Ritz in the 1920s and 1930s. David Lloyd George held a number of secret meetings at the Ritz in the latter half of the war, and it was at the Ritz that he made the decision to intervene on behalf of Greece against Turkey. It began to gain popularity towards the end of World War I, with politicians, socialites, writers and actors in particular. The hotel was opened by Swiss hotelier César Ritz in 1906, eight years after he established the Hôtel Ritz Paris. The Ritz has become so associated with luxury and elegance that the word "ritzy" has entered the English language to denote something that is ostentatiously stylish, fancy, or fashionable. A symbol of high society and luxury, the hotel is one of the world's most prestigious and best known. The Ritz London is a Grade II listed 5-star hotel in Piccadilly, London, England.
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