Hong Kong Builder
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NEW RESTAURANT AT THE REGENT PALACE HOTEL
Designed by Oliver P. Bernard
The Restaurant at the Regent Palace Hotel is perhaps one of the best-known restaurants in the world, and the new restaurant is the old restaurant in new guise. The old marble columns and plaster swags have gone, and the old rather dismal atmosphere has been replaced by gay and friendly surroundings.
The old restaurant presented a problem with regard to the ceiling, being a room of great length, but no more than normal height. This difficulty has been overcome by dividing the ceiling area into a number of elliptical and horse-shoe-shaped laylights which surround domes lighted indirectly from a plaster trough. These illuminated domes, being shadowless, give an impression of increased height.
The glass in the laylights (chevron reeded) is of such a nature as to allow a maximum amount of light to shine directly downwards through clear glass, yet at the same time completely to mask the lamps when seen normally at an angle: this is achieved by spraying a vitreous enamel upon half only of each reed.
The pilasters, columns, dado panelling, etc., are in
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