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hings hadn’t worked out as well in America as he had hoped, so off he went to Japan to design the Hotel Imperial. The interesting thing about the Hotel Imperial is that the Japanese thought that they were getting something American and the Americans who visited the hotel after it was built thought that it must be something Japanese and it was neither; if it was anything it was Mayan.—Brendan Gill, Writer
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