Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		Hotel Edward Durban, KwaZulu-Natal Percy ROGERS COOKE: Design Architect 1937 OBEL and FROLICH: Consulting Architect 1937 SN TOMKIN and PARTNERS: Architect 6th Floor extension 1966 OSMOND LANGE ARCHITECTS and PLANNERS: Architect 7th floor Added 1996

Date: 1937 : c1970 Type: Hotel Style: Art Deco Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 29°51'15.98" S 31°02'18.57" E Alt: 10m

The Art Deco hotel was the second Hotel Edward. It was constructed on the site to the right of the earlier building, which was retained until 1985 when it was sold and demolished for the Holiday Inn Garden Court. The 6th floor was extended in 1966 in the same style as the original. In 1996 an extra (7th) floor was added to the whole building. This included an extension over the main entrance, which was detailed using typical Art Deco decorative elements, not used in the original. The hotel is currently (2021) owned by Tsogo Sun and operates under the same name but is now more often called simply "The Edward". (Gerald Humphrey, April 2021) Books that reference Hotel Edward Hillebrand, Melanie. 1986. Art and architecture in Natal, 1910-1940. Pietermaritzburg: Unpublished Ph.D. Dept Fine Art and History of Art, University of Natal. pg 463