London Hotels in 1900: The Carlton Hotel

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his survey of London Hotels in Imperial London, published in 1901, with this look at the Carlton:

The Carlton Hotel with its facade of Portland stone is a distinct and welcome addition to the attractions of London as a cosmopolitan city.

The entrance to the hotel proper is on the Pall Mall side of the building.

One may ascend by lift or use the broad marble staircase to the several floors, which rise six stories above the level of the roofing covering the quadrangle, into which open a number of windows on two other floors.

In the basement is the oak-panelled grill-room; corridors run at right angles round the block, and on each side are the bedrooms, furnished in varied styles - Louis XVI, the Empire, Adams, Chippendale, or Sheraton.

This well-ventilated court-yard forms a luxurious lounge, and is furnished with palms, Oriental rugs, and fauteuils.

It has a marble terrace with a wrought-iron and ormolu railing at one end, and the orchestra play here during dinner.

It is called the Palm Court, and has marble pilasters with gilded capitals and cornices, and is approached from the main entrance to the restaurant in Pall Mall by a vestibule.

On the right and left are a ladies' drawing-room, a Charles II dining-room, a reading-room, and in one corner an attractive Elizabethan smoking-room panelled in oak, with windows that let in warm light and shut out street noises, and an ingle-nook, with beams of oak across the ceiling.

Something of the kind is to be found in the Continental of Paris, but it is unique in London.

The Carlton is a hotel, a restaurant of the highest class, and a grill-room.

The salle-a-manger is in the Adams style, with pink marble columns.

Rose, deepest in the carpet, lightest in the silk shades of the candelabra, is the predominant colour.

The furniture is delicate satin-wood, upholstered in rose.

One effect aimed at - best appreciated after nightfall - is the contrast of pale blue moonlight with the rose of the upholstery, and there are no assertive colours present to kill the delicacy of ladies' toilettes.

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