Perched on Hyde Park Corner, moments from Buckingham Palace, it is billed as one of the most expensive hotel's in London and part of the exclusive Oetker Collection Masterpiece Hotels that include Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, Le Bristol Paris, and the Palais Namaskar in Marrakech.
This textile, with its tulips and carnations, is one of the collection's masterpieces.
Police discovered a vast collection of masterpieces by some of the world's greatest artists.
It was founded by the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda in 1894 as a representative collection of masterpieces.
By the time of the art historian's death in 2011, aged 100, he had amassed a collection of masterpieces worth an estimated £100 million.
It is a cuboid-style building, unremarkable but for the fact that inside is an impressive private collection of masterpieces, many of them once banned and almost burned.
The culture minister, Francesco Rutelli, said that by 2009 the museum's collection, including masterpieces by Raphael, Caravaggio and El Greco, would occupy the entire building.
The collection includes masterpieces by Raphael, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Gentile Bellini and Tintoretto, not to mention the courtyard entrance with Canova's imposing bronze statue of Napoleon.
The Art Fund charity announced that it has now completed the transfer of 57 Italian Baroque paintings from Sir Denis's collection, including masterpieces by Guercino, Guido Reni, Domenichino and Ludovico Carracci, to the permanent collections of six UK museums and galleries.
The museum, whose collection includes masterpieces by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Mondrian and van Gogh, has already made images of 125,000 of its works available through Rijksstudio, an interactive section of its Web site.
