DISCOVER LONDONdiscoverbritainmag.com 65➤famous entrance where taxis drive on the
continental side of the road – was clad in its
daring stainless steel. Today, the American
Bar, having flirted with Hawaiian-style
bamboo after the Second World War, has
gone back to an Art Deco look (as has
Good Godfrey’s, the bar at the nearby
Waldorf Hilton).
The Dorchester Hotel on Park Lane
opened in April 1931, but it is pure 1920s in
design, resembling as it does an ocean-going
liner. Many buildings of the era referenced
airships, fast cars and railway engines in
their sleek aerodynamic lines, all part of
the decade’s love affair with technology.
The entire workings of the Dorchester
were hidden in a basement so deep that
the hotel was considered “bomb proof”
at the outbreak of the Second World War.
The Oxo Tower on the south bank of
the River Thames is one of London’s most
idiosyncratic 1920s buildings from thisThe Roaring Twenties
was a decade that started
slowly but eventually
dazzled creatively
DISCOVER LONDONdiscoverbritainmag.com 65➤famous entrance where taxis drive on the
continental side of the road – was clad in its
daring stainless steel. Today, the American
Bar, having flirted with Hawaiian-style
bamboo after the Second World War, has
gone back to an Art Deco look (as has
Good Godfrey’s, the bar at the nearby
Waldorf Hilton).
The Dorchester Hotel on Park Lane
opened in April 1931, but it is pure 1920s in
design, resembling as it does an ocean-going
liner. Many buildings of the era referenced
airships, fast cars and railway engines in
their sleek aerodynamic lines, all part of
the decade’s love affair with technology.
The entire workings of the Dorchester
were hidden in a basement so deep that
the hotel was considered “bomb proof”
at the outbreak of the Second World War.
The Oxo Tower on the south bank of
the River Thames is one of London’s most
idiosyncratic 1920s buildings from this
The Roaring Twenties
was a decade that started
slowly but eventually
dazzled creatively