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When the restaurant re-opened with the mural completed it was described by its publicity as "the most amusing room in Europe". The mural is described as "one of the outstanding mural schemes of the Inter-War years" in Tate Britain's heritage listing on the National Heritage List for England. Writing in Apollo magazine in 2014, Digby Warde-Aldam remarked that "[l]ooking at the mural now is a strange experience; while its subject matter and frivolously gallant style are almost unutterably camp, there's a sombre sobriety to the tones of the paint that renders it an impressive work rather than the sort of kitsch and ephemerally fashionable diorama churned out by some of his contemporaries".
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