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In this remark, the Welsh painter Augustus John cast the changing format and clientele of London’s Café Royal in terms of a broader sense of receding hope and cultural failure. John recalled nostalgically the ‘Byzantine splendour’ of the bar and the ‘fly-blown rococo of the famous saloon’, and noted how it was one of the few continental-style public houses in England.
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- Lateness and Modernism , pp. xvi - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019