Own The Savoy (or at least part of it): World famous London hotel puts 3,000 items up for auction in refurbishment drive, including 1,371 pieces of furniture and 344 works of fine art

A satellite celebrated London edifice has listed implicit 3,000 items for merchantability including 1,371 pieces of furnishings and 344 works of good creation up of its latest renovation.

The Savoy, located successful the Strand, has ever been determined to enactment up of the times and arsenic it looks to renovate erstwhile more, it's furnishings are going up for auction.

It has seen 4 large refurbishments implicit its 135-year history, successful 1910, 1936, 1950 and 2010 — and 2024 is nary exception. 

Decorative art, curtains, collectables, textile items and furnishings are among the thousands of items up for grabs adjacent month. 

They are disposable to presumption connected the BidSpotter website, including a representation of Charlie Chaplin and a Georgian Chippendale-style Donghia camelback sofa.

The edifice announced successful August: 'The Savoy has besides confirmed a refurbishment of rooms and suites arsenic portion of a continued committedness to put successful the spot and guarantee the champion acquisition for guests. 

'This has commenced and is to beryllium done successful stages to person small to nary interaction to the operational moving of the hotel. The archetypal caller rooms and suites volition beryllium revealed successful August 2025.'

However, it has remained quiescent connected what the refurbished rooms whitethorn look like. 

The Times reported 1 of the suites nether renovation is named aft soprano Maria Callas. 

Remnants of her clip astatine The Savoy are up for merchantability including a framed representation of her and framed transcript of the people of the opera Anna Bolena. 

Callas' 1957 show of the tragedy, composed by Gaetano Donizetti, is considered 1 of the highlights of her career.

Another people which is up for merchantability depicts the Lyceum Theatre successful London connected March 21, 1817, erstwhile it hosted an accumulation of the writer and inventor inventor Adam Walker's eidouranion, which is simply a benignant of star system. 

Furniture going up for auction see pieces by Italian luxury designer Francesco Molon. His items person besides graced the Ritz-Carlton successful New York and the Palazzo Portinari Salviati successful Florence.

The Savoy precocious reopened its Thames Foyer pursuing a important renovation.

The glass-domed atrium has been serving day beverage for implicit a period and reopened nether the caller sanction of Gallery this weekend.  

Commenting connected the renovation, managing director, Franck Arnold, says, 'This is going to beryllium a implicit translation of the Thames Foyer and Upper Thames and we are truthful excited to unveil our new, vibrant eating destination and outlets aboriginal successful the year. 

'The caller eating conception volition harmoniously blend contented with innovation, ensuring our guests person the cleanable mounting successful which to relax, portion and dine, and bask a genuinely unsocial Savoy experience'. 

The Savoy is simply a haunt for the large and bully and has seen galore stars walk done its doors implicit the years, including Marilyn Monroe, The Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), Coco Chanel and Fred Estaire.

When it opened successful 1889 it was Britain's archetypal luxury edifice including galore innovations specified arsenic electrical lights, electrical lifts, bathrooms successful astir of the rooms and changeless blistery moving water. 

The Thames Foyer paved its ain mode successful history, hosting the archetypal ever meal creation successful 1912, erstwhile a daring mates got up to creation successful a tiny spread betwixt tables, portion world-renowned dishes specified arsenic Peach Melba were created by legendary chef, Auguste Escoffier, during his clip astatine the edifice from 1890 to 1898.