The complete restoration of a hotel as prestigious as the London Savoy is, at the same time, both a huge and délicate task. For a photographer, the work in progress is therefore a complex adventure. A sloughing metamorphosis revealing the Savoy’s skins as they are about to be shed, followed by the others gradually taking their place.
Although the Savoy was the first grand luxury hôtel in London in the 19th Century, it was also the first to be completely fitted with electric lighting and to possess electric lifts, at that time. Its full restoration has to achieve the sense of absolute luxury.