By ChiTownView
“The Palmer House hotel in downtown Chicago is old school. Walk up the marble staircase and enter a two-story time machine back a century or so. You are surrounded by all manner of elaborate decorations – the centerpiece of which is the gorgeous mural painted on the ceiling. Measuring more than 50 feet, it is composed of 21 separate pieces that were painted in Paris by artist Louis Pierre Rigal in 1926.”
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“In the muralist Louis Pierre Rigal’s early 1930s paintings for the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria, muscular men haul nets full of fish, and gowned women dance and lounge in gardens,” the New York Times notes.
“Rigal apparently wanted to add scenes of women playing with horned gazelles and proffering bouquets and fruit, but never had the chance.”
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Posted on October 24, 2013