Williams Olivia - The Secret Life Of The Savoy Glamour And Intrigue At The World's Most Famous Hotel - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: The captivating story of the famed Savoy Hotel's founders told through three generations and one hundred years of glamour and high society. For the gondoliers - themed birthday dinner the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice. Dinner was served on a silk - lined floating gondola real swans were swimming in the water and as a final flourish a baby elephant borrowed from London Zoo pulled a five - foot high birthday cake. In three generations the D Oyly Carte family and London's Savoy Hotel pioneered the idea of the luxury hotel and the modern theater propelled Gilbert and Sullivan to lasting stardom made Oscar Wilde a transatlantic celebrity inspired a P. G. Wodehouse series and popularized early jazz electric lights and Art Deco. Following the history of the iconic Savoy Hotel through three generations of the D Oyly Carte family The Secret Life of the Savoy brings to life the extraordinary cultural legacy of the most famous hotel in the world.
Title: The Secret Life Of The Savoy Glamour And Intrigue At The World's Most Famous Hotel
Author(s): Williams Olivia
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Barcode: 9781643137384
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/1/2021
Category: Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment