A Hotel Okura cast glass and chrome picture frame made as a gift for guests, marking the opening of

A Hotel Okura cast glass and chrome picture frame made as a gift for guests, marking the opening of the hotel's south wing extension, rectangular, textured clear glass frame with polished metal back plate, in original presentation cardboard box, applied label, 23cm. high

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Yoshiro Taniguchi designed the original Hotel Okura in 1962. When Ian Fleming wrote You Only Live Twice two years after the hotel was opened, and the author had the British spy stay at the Okura. When It was turned into a film starring Sean Connery as James Bond 007 in 1973, the hotel's lobby was used as one of the sets.