Rappaport, who made a fortune by buying, improving, and then selling run-down properties, announced in 1989 that he planned to turn the building into his own personal headquarters and add a glass-enclosed ballroom on its top.
There's a "press room" the size of a soccer field, containing nothing but an antique video camera poised ready for interviews, a circular conference room below a giant five-ton crystal chandelier, and a great glass-ceilinged ballroom where Ceaușescu intended to woo foreign dignitaries.
There's a "press room" the size of a soccer-field, containing nothing but an antique video camera poised ready for interviews; a circular conference room below a giant five-ton crystal chandelier; a great glass-ceilinged ballroom where Ceaușescu intended to woo foreign dignitaries.
There are original 19th-century marble floors just off the main lobby, and neo-baroque frescoes and stained glass in the ballroom.
A glass elevator, a ballroom, three living rooms and a 3,000-square-foot 3,000-square-foot 3,000-square-footal of 11 bedroomaster 15 bathroomsuite
The original house had 25 bedrooms, a ballroom, a glass rotunda and four tennis courts, where a tournament was played every summer after Wimbledon, featuring many of its players.
His father also played a role in Mr. Vo's quest to purchase three spectacular glass chandeliers from the ballroom of the former Hotel Majestic in Paris, where the peace accord was reached among the Americans, North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese and Vietcong in 1973, which was supposed to have ended the Vietnam War.
"We also hope to uncover the glass domes in the ballroom, which have been boxed in".
I have an aversion to heels so it's very likely that I would have hurled that glass slipper across the ballroom floor and lifted my right fist into the air like Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the '68 Olympics as it broke into a gazillion pieces.
