The Plaza Hotel is one of the world's premiere Palace Inns, and was acclaimed as America's greatest hotel when it opened its doors in October of 1907, which qualifies it as one of the country's oldest hotel structures. Many still regard the Plaza as being the ultimate in commercial hospitality and one of Manhattan's most welcome havens.

In this La Belle Époque Series, Mark King beckons you into the timeless luxuriousness of the Palm Court - the magnificent tearoom facing the Fifth Avenue side of the hotel. This sumptuous space was finished in Caen stone and Breche violet marble and crowned with a high dome of Tiffany glass. Underneath this splendid Art Nouveau violet star-studded ceiling, we are viewers to a charming scene taking place - that of a young girl celebrating a special occasion.

Mark King, in this glorious portrayal of a festive afternoon, memorable extends and sets forth the Belle Époque style and grace which epitomized the atmosphere of The Plaza. The lovely qualities of gentility and civility that The Plaza invoked in its guests which tended to soften manifestations of eccentricity, extravagance and ostentation, are radiantly recreated in this inspired Impressionist work offering a gracious glimpse of the elegant past.