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Address: 9641 Sunset Boulevard
Beverly Hills, 90210
Tel: 310 276 2251
Website: www.BeverlyHillsHotel.com
www.dorchestercollection.com
Email: info@dorchestercollection.com
Owner: Dorchester Collection
Restaurants/ Bars: The Polo Lounge, The Cabana Café
The Fountain Coffee Room, Bar Nineteen12
Architects/ Interior Design/ Artwork: Elmer Grey, Paul Revere Williams
Rottet Studio, Tihany Design, Claus Oldenburg, Jean de Merry
Dianna Wong Architecture and Interior Design, Inc., Kaoru Mansour
Guestrooms: 187 rooms and suites
23 bungalows
Photo Credit: The Beverly Hills Hotel: Images 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 15, 22, 24, 39, 41, 43, 69
Robert S. Anderson, www.thebeverlyhillscollection.com: Images 78, 80, 81
Details: Known to insiders as ‘The Pink Palace’
Located steps away from Rodeo Drive, in the heart of Beverly Hills
The Beverly Hills Hotel has 12 acres of landscaped grounds with more than 180
type of plants, including tropical and exotic flowers
The hotel counts with 24-hour concierge and room service
The Beverly Hills Hotel Spa by La Prairie is located on the Promenade level and
has six treatment rooms - couples´ suite, private cabanas above the pool,
separate saunas and steam rooms for men and women
The Spa offers a treatment menu of more than 400 La Prairie´s therapies
Presidential Suite has a private entrance
Paul Williams Suite and the Presidential suite have personal 24-hour Chef and
Butler
The history of The Beverly Hills Hotel is a tale of Hollywood´s royalty, glamour
and romance
Celebrity guests - Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, John Lennon and
Yoko Ono, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Princess Margaret and
Lord Snowdon, King Albert of Belgium, Prince of Monaco, John Wayne,
Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin,
Yves Montand, Charlie Chaplin, Faye Dunaway, Neil Simon, among others
Elizabeth Taylor honeymooned with six of her husbands in the bungalows
Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich bunked in the bungalows
Receiving a phone call at the pool was a hallmark of exclusivity
Elizabeth Taylor´s father had an art gallery in the hotel´s lower level
Bungalow 8 was inspired by The Beverly Hills Hotel´s bungalows
Interior: The decoration is a combination of Art Decó and 40s-style Hollywood
glamour
All furnishings were custom-designed for the hotel
The lobby features a Venetian glass chandelier, gold-leaf ceiling, banana
palms, and four large-scale photographic studies of roses, calla lilies, tulips
and anthuriums
The Grand Staircase has a custom-designed rail of dark Verde metal with
gold-leaf accents
The artwork follows a garden theme of bringing the outdoors in
Rooms are designed in a spacious, timeless, and comfortable elegant
concept - using Beverly Hills accents like the palette of greens, pinks, apricots
and yellows
Guestrooms feature walk-in closet, sitting area with a Jacques Grange
inspired oval desk and sleeping area
A third of the rooms have fireplaces, balconies, patios or terraces
The 23 bungalows feature separate entrances, living room, dining room and
fireplace
Some bungalows have a piano, Jacuzzi and treadmill
Presidential Bungalows feature an entrance foyer, great room with a powder
room, master bedroom with a walk-in closet, makeup area, two additional
bedrooms, gallery/sun porch, study, three-and-a-half bathrooms with a
private courtyard each one, landscaped private gardens, an outdoor shower
for two outside the master bathroom
History: May 12th, 1912 - Margaret J. Anderson and Stanley Anderson with architect
Elmer Grey, hired by Burton Green, opened The Beverly Hills Hotel, named after
Beverly Farms, Green´s home in Massachusetts. The property was described as
situated “halfway between Los Angeles and the sea”
The Polo Lounge was ‘El Jardin’ at the time
1913 - Arrival at The Beverly Hills Hotel & Bungalows by trolley on Sunset
Boulevard
1914 - Beverly Hills was incorporated as a city
1930 - The hotel closed its door after the Great Depression, the bungalows
continued occupied
1932 - Bank of America reopened the hotel
1939 - Weekly fashion shows were staged on the pool
1940 - Marlene Dietrich changed the Polo Lounge dress code
1941 - Hernando Courtright, Loretta Young, Irene Dunne and Harry Warner
purchased the hotel
Courtright renamed El Jardin Restaurant the Polo Lounge
1947 - The Beverly Hills Hotel´s major renovation, opening the Crystal Room
and the Lanai Restaurant (later renamed The Coterie)
1948 - The hotel´s exterior was painted pink
1949 - Paul Revere Williams designed the new Crescent wing, the Polo
Lounge, Fountain Coffee Shop and the lobby, in the distinctive pink and
green motifs of today
Early 1950s - Ben Silberstein purchased the hotel
1954 - The Crescent wing was built with mature plantings adorning the
balconies
1956 - Scenes from ‘Designing Women’ were filmed at the hotel
1974 - Renovation of the Polo Lounge
1979 - Ben Silberstein died and the hotel passed to his two daughters, Muriel
Slatkin and Seema Boesky
1986 - The Boeskys gained control of the hotel, and sold it later that year to
Marvin Davis
1987 - Dorchester Collection purchased the hotel
1990 - Renovation of Bungalow 5 for Walter Annenberg, building a private
swimming pool and Jacuzzi
December 30th, 1992 - The Beverly Hills Hotel closed for a three year restoration
June 3rd, 1995 - Reopening of The Beverly Hills Hotel
February 2004 - The Beverly Hills Hotel Spa by La Prairie opened
2007 - A suite is converted to Bar Nineteen12
2011 - Opening of the Presidential Bungalows, the largest Presidential Suites in
Los Angeles
2012 - Celebration of its 100 year anniversary
Publication of The Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows - The First 100 Years by
Robert Anderson, Margaret Anderson´s grandson and the hotel´s most
knowledgeable historian
Restoration by Tihany Design
Dorchester Collection
Category: Hotel Group
Address: 3 Tilney Street
London, W1K 1BJ
Tel: 0 20 7629 4848
Website: www.dorchestercollection.com
Email: info@dorchestercollection.com
Owner: Brunei Investment Agency
Dorchester Collection Properties: The Dorchester, The Beverly Hills Hotel, Le Meurice,
Hôtel Plaza Athénée, Hotel Principe di Savoia, Hotel Bel-Air, Coworth Park,
45 Park Lane, Le Richemond
Beverly Hills, 90210
Tel: 310 276 2251
Website: www.BeverlyHillsHotel.com
www.dorchestercollection.com
Email: info@dorchestercollection.com
Owner: Dorchester Collection
Restaurants/ Bars: The Polo Lounge, The Cabana Café
The Fountain Coffee Room, Bar Nineteen12
Architects/ Interior Design/ Artwork: Elmer Grey, Paul Revere Williams
Rottet Studio, Tihany Design, Claus Oldenburg, Jean de Merry
Dianna Wong Architecture and Interior Design, Inc., Kaoru Mansour
Guestrooms: 187 rooms and suites
23 bungalows
Photo Credit: The Beverly Hills Hotel: Images 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 15, 22, 24, 39, 41, 43, 69
Robert S. Anderson, www.thebeverlyhillscollection.com: Images 78, 80, 81
Details: Known to insiders as ‘The Pink Palace’
Located steps away from Rodeo Drive, in the heart of Beverly Hills
The Beverly Hills Hotel has 12 acres of landscaped grounds with more than 180
type of plants, including tropical and exotic flowers
The hotel counts with 24-hour concierge and room service
The Beverly Hills Hotel Spa by La Prairie is located on the Promenade level and
has six treatment rooms - couples´ suite, private cabanas above the pool,
separate saunas and steam rooms for men and women
The Spa offers a treatment menu of more than 400 La Prairie´s therapies
Presidential Suite has a private entrance
Paul Williams Suite and the Presidential suite have personal 24-hour Chef and
Butler
The history of The Beverly Hills Hotel is a tale of Hollywood´s royalty, glamour
and romance
Celebrity guests - Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, John Lennon and
Yoko Ono, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Princess Margaret and
Lord Snowdon, King Albert of Belgium, Prince of Monaco, John Wayne,
Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin,
Yves Montand, Charlie Chaplin, Faye Dunaway, Neil Simon, among others
Elizabeth Taylor honeymooned with six of her husbands in the bungalows
Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich bunked in the bungalows
Receiving a phone call at the pool was a hallmark of exclusivity
Elizabeth Taylor´s father had an art gallery in the hotel´s lower level
Bungalow 8 was inspired by The Beverly Hills Hotel´s bungalows
Interior: The decoration is a combination of Art Decó and 40s-style Hollywood
glamour
All furnishings were custom-designed for the hotel
The lobby features a Venetian glass chandelier, gold-leaf ceiling, banana
palms, and four large-scale photographic studies of roses, calla lilies, tulips
and anthuriums
The Grand Staircase has a custom-designed rail of dark Verde metal with
gold-leaf accents
The artwork follows a garden theme of bringing the outdoors in
Rooms are designed in a spacious, timeless, and comfortable elegant
concept - using Beverly Hills accents like the palette of greens, pinks, apricots
and yellows
Guestrooms feature walk-in closet, sitting area with a Jacques Grange
inspired oval desk and sleeping area
A third of the rooms have fireplaces, balconies, patios or terraces
The 23 bungalows feature separate entrances, living room, dining room and
fireplace
Some bungalows have a piano, Jacuzzi and treadmill
Presidential Bungalows feature an entrance foyer, great room with a powder
room, master bedroom with a walk-in closet, makeup area, two additional
bedrooms, gallery/sun porch, study, three-and-a-half bathrooms with a
private courtyard each one, landscaped private gardens, an outdoor shower
for two outside the master bathroom
History: May 12th, 1912 - Margaret J. Anderson and Stanley Anderson with architect
Elmer Grey, hired by Burton Green, opened The Beverly Hills Hotel, named after
Beverly Farms, Green´s home in Massachusetts. The property was described as
situated “halfway between Los Angeles and the sea”
The Polo Lounge was ‘El Jardin’ at the time
1913 - Arrival at The Beverly Hills Hotel & Bungalows by trolley on Sunset
Boulevard
1914 - Beverly Hills was incorporated as a city
1930 - The hotel closed its door after the Great Depression, the bungalows
continued occupied
1932 - Bank of America reopened the hotel
1939 - Weekly fashion shows were staged on the pool
1940 - Marlene Dietrich changed the Polo Lounge dress code
1941 - Hernando Courtright, Loretta Young, Irene Dunne and Harry Warner
purchased the hotel
Courtright renamed El Jardin Restaurant the Polo Lounge
1947 - The Beverly Hills Hotel´s major renovation, opening the Crystal Room
and the Lanai Restaurant (later renamed The Coterie)
1948 - The hotel´s exterior was painted pink
1949 - Paul Revere Williams designed the new Crescent wing, the Polo
Lounge, Fountain Coffee Shop and the lobby, in the distinctive pink and
green motifs of today
Early 1950s - Ben Silberstein purchased the hotel
1954 - The Crescent wing was built with mature plantings adorning the
balconies
1956 - Scenes from ‘Designing Women’ were filmed at the hotel
1974 - Renovation of the Polo Lounge
1979 - Ben Silberstein died and the hotel passed to his two daughters, Muriel
Slatkin and Seema Boesky
1986 - The Boeskys gained control of the hotel, and sold it later that year to
Marvin Davis
1987 - Dorchester Collection purchased the hotel
1990 - Renovation of Bungalow 5 for Walter Annenberg, building a private
swimming pool and Jacuzzi
December 30th, 1992 - The Beverly Hills Hotel closed for a three year restoration
June 3rd, 1995 - Reopening of The Beverly Hills Hotel
February 2004 - The Beverly Hills Hotel Spa by La Prairie opened
2007 - A suite is converted to Bar Nineteen12
2011 - Opening of the Presidential Bungalows, the largest Presidential Suites in
Los Angeles
2012 - Celebration of its 100 year anniversary
Publication of The Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows - The First 100 Years by
Robert Anderson, Margaret Anderson´s grandson and the hotel´s most
knowledgeable historian
Restoration by Tihany Design
Dorchester Collection
Category: Hotel Group
Address: 3 Tilney Street
London, W1K 1BJ
Tel: 0 20 7629 4848
Website: www.dorchestercollection.com
Email: info@dorchestercollection.com
Owner: Brunei Investment Agency
Dorchester Collection Properties: The Dorchester, The Beverly Hills Hotel, Le Meurice,
Hôtel Plaza Athénée, Hotel Principe di Savoia, Hotel Bel-Air, Coworth Park,
45 Park Lane, Le Richemond
The Beverly Hills Hotel, 100 year anniversary
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