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varieties of palms on site,” says
Victoria Dolan
, Four Seasons Biltmore
capital projects manager.
The Warner-led team lowered the parking lot to improve views from
the entry, built a 10,000-square-foot spa with ten treatment rooms that
include four suites with fireplaces. The pool area too, came in for special
attention; Warner added an underwater stereo system and replaced the old
tiles with unique iridescent tiles (now called Tyles; he bought the company
that makes them), and protected by a four-foot-high brick-topped wall
surrounded by a 12-inch-deep lily pond that stretches all around the pool
area. A separate structure thrown up under the Marriott regime in the
early 1970s was torn down and replaced with a building more in keeping
with the original Reginald Johnson design. That it required some $240