In the early 1930s, Oliver Percy Bernard OBE MC (1881 – 1939), an English architect, and scenic, graphic and industrial designer, was commissioned to redesign some of the Beaux Arts interiors of The Regent Palace Hotel in London, which had opened in the Beaux Arts style in 1915 for J.Lyons & Co.
Generally recognised as one of the key figures in the creation of the art deco style, he was technical director of the British Pavilion at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes.
The interiors Bernard designed in the basement of The Regent Palace Hotel were quite astonishing and were described by Building magazine in May 1935 as “just a trifle dissipated and naughty, but not sufficiently so to be vulgar”.
According to Architecture Today Magazine, the interiors of Brasserie Zédel are “probably the best and most authentic series of 1930s interiors in this country”.
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