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BBC - Savoy to close for restoration

The Savoy, one of London’s best-known hotels, is set to close for a £100m refit that will take 16 months.

Fine, whatever, I never got near the thing.

Some 3,000 pieces of hotel history, including beds, chandeliers and an oak dance floor, are to be sold off during a three-day auction next week.

The Ritz, I think, in New York, did that a couple years ago. There were riots. Especially for the china.

There are no reserve prices on items, which include the signature pink and white Savoy crockery and interest in the sale is running high with requests for catalogues coming from around the world.

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