Originally built at the request of Louis XV and a witness to the French Revolution, given its strategic location on Place de la Concorde, the French capital's Hôtel de Crillon is steeped in history. Ahead of its reopening July 5, here are 10 figures that give some scale of the splendor that awaits.
17,000 cubic meters: the volume of earth removed from the two basement levels when workers dug beneath the historic site, notably to create a pool and spa with an accompanying skylight.
€1,200: the starting price of the 78 rooms in the luxury hotel, which also has 36 suites and 10 signature suites. The famous Bernstein Suite costs €25,000 per night.
17,600: the number of mosaics used to line the swimming pool in the Crillon spa, a highly anticipated feature of the refurbished hotel.
30,000: the number of marble petals used in the corridor flooring. They were all laid individually, by hand.
60,000: the number of gold leaves used to decorate various spaces in Hôtel de Crillon. These too were applied one by one.
53: different varieties of marble chosen for use in the interior decorations.
€9,000: the price of the bed of composer Léonard Bernstein, an artist who regularly stayed at Hôtel de Crillon, and who gave his name to the famous suite. The establishment auctioned a collection of furnishings in 2013 when it closed for refurbishment.
€250,000: the amount fetched at auction by the hotel's "César" bar, now owned by a modern art collector in Northern Europe. This piece of furniture was estimated at €12,000.
4,700: the number of people required to carry out the hotel's renovations.
16,740 square meters: the total area of the renovation site at Hôtel de Crillon, which started in March 2013. Work has been carried out on seven levels.