room
Looking towards Lobby from the Bar
single rooms, each with attached bath
room.
imitation leather.
imitation
The Restaurant from the Bandstand Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd., bar-top is of Formica, spruce capri. metal mesh and rust-red it was intended as luxury apartments. The comfortable chairs are covered leather panels with black intersections. Due to a change of policy, however, with russet uncut moquette, and Ceilings are finished as in the lounge. the accommodation was replanned to covers for the bench seats are of Chair covers are of pale yellow uncut that of a deluxe hotel, containing yellow and black uncut moquette. moquette and bench seat covers are forty-five three-room and eleven two
Adjoining the lounge and laid out of yellow and black uncut moquette. suites, as well as twenty-three in a circular pattern around four Lighting is from concealed fluorescent tubes dimmed from a central control. centre columns, the Restaurant has a small dance floor and platform for the The column cladding is of rust-red Because of this change a lounge and orchestra. The outer walls are formed restaurant, not normally required for in the pattern of a folded screen, The Entrance Hall has as its main an apartment house, had to be provid- which continues up the steps to the feature a decorative ceiling of rectan- ed, but at the time the change was entrance from Middle Road. gular plaster panels incised with an- decided upon, most of the ground The floor is similar to that of the cient Chinese transcriptions. Im- floor, except for the entrance hall and lounge, and the walls are pale yellow mediately beyond is the cloakroom, reception for the apartment block, had panels with black intersections, each panelled in teak. Between it and been let to the Kowloon Branch of the panel bearing a painted scene from the restaurant is the main waiting Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor- Marco Polo's travels. Moulded teak space and a telephone booth. The poration, and the remainder to the battens with polished teak cill form entire staircase is covered with close- Hong Kong Carpet Salon.
the dado. Walls to alcoves are gilt fitted carpet.
The Hotel management, with all the accommodation on the upper floors provided for, allocated space in the basement for a restaurant, capable of seating between 80 and 100 people with bar, orchestra and a small dance floor. This is intended primarily for residents, but has a separate entrance to Middle Road for non-residents. An adjoining lounge and bar is for res- idents only.
Planning of the restaurant and lounge was largely determined by the existing positions of entrances, stair- cases, ramps, etc.
The walls are of plaster, painted pale yellow, and the ceiling of acoustic plaster painted raspberry colour. The floor is of teak parquet with close- fitted looped pile carpet in grey-green. The joinery is of polished teak.
The front of the bar is of rust-red lanide and black Formica, while the
The Bar from the Entrance Lobby
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