"The Peacock Alley Restaurant is an extension of the Waldorf's plush lobby, and it is lovely: filled with art deco treasures, ceilings etched with glass panels, patterned parquet floors, and murals of white peacocks. The walls are covered with French walnut burl s inlaid with ebony. The pillars are Moroccan marble, and the ceiling and cornices are covered in gold and silver leaf. ... Peacock Alley was the name given to a 300-foot-long corridor with amber marble and mirrored walls that connected two hotel buildings owned by 's great-grandsons, the feuding Astor cousins, and . It was a place to see and be seen. On weekends, up to 36,000 men and women walked the alley, admiring themselves and one another in the mirrors, prompting the name "Peacock Alley" as a description of the strutting to and fro. The Peacock Alley Restaurant was named for that famous corridor."
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Waldorf Astoria New York
1893 – 1929
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