The Ritz Hotel, London
The Ritz London is a Grade II listed 5- star hotel located in Piccadilly in London, England.
A symbol of high society and luxury, the hotel is one of the world's most prestigious and best known hotels.
It is a member of the international consortium, The Leading Hotels of the World.
Over the course of its history 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.
The hotel was opened by Swiss hotelier César Ritz in May 1906, eight years after he established the Hôtel Ritz Paris.
After a weak beginning, the hotel began to gain popularity towards the end of World War I, and became popular with politicians, socialites, writers and actors of the day in particular.
David Lloyd George held a number of secret meetings at the Ritz during 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.
Noël Coward was a notable diner at the Ritz in the 1920s and 1930s.
Owned by the Bracewell- Smith family for a period until 1976, The Ellerman Group of Companies purchased the hotel for £ 80 million from Trafalgar House in October 1995.
They spent eight years and £ 40 million restoring it to its former grandeur.
In 2002, it became the first hotel to receive a Royal warrant from the Prince of Wales for its banquet and catering services.
The exterior is both structurally and visually Franco- American in style with little trace of English architecture, and is heavily influenced by the architectural traditions of Paris.
The facade on the Piccadilly side is roughly, on the Arlington Street side, and on the Green Park side.
At the corners of the pavilion roofs of the Ritz are large green copper lions, the emblem of the hotel.
The Ritz has 111 rooms and 25 suites.
The Ritz Club, owned by the owners of the Ritz Hotel since 1998, is a casino in the basement of the hotel, occupying the space which was formerly the Ritz Bar and Grill.
It offers roulette, black jack, baccarat, and poker, as well as some slot machines.
The interior was designed mainly by London and Paris based designers in the Louis XVI style, which is consistent throughout.
Author 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 Ritz's most widely known facility is the Palm Court, which hosts the famous" Tea at the Ritz".
It is an opulently decorated cream- coloured Louis XVI setting, with panelled mirrors in gilt bronze frames.
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.
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.
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Ritz
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The company has 101 luxury hotels and resorts in 30 countries and territories with 27,650 rooms.
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Actress Rita Moreno, who had won a Tony Award for her performance as Googie Gomez in the 1975 Broadway production, and many others of the original cast like Jack Weston, Jerry Stiller, and F. Murray Abraham, reprise their stage roles in the film version.
Also in the cast were Kaye Ballard and Treat Williams.
The film, Jack Weston, and Rita Moreno all received Golden Globe nominations in the comedy category.
It opened to mixed reviews.

Question: Do both directors of films The Ritz (Film) and Nijinsky (Film) share the same nationality?
Answer: yes