 Authors Montgomery @-@ Massingberd and Watkin describe the Ritz as " the product of one of those near miraculous convergences of civilised patron and architects and craftsmen of genius working together in complete harmony both with each other and with the social and architectural fashions of the day . The building has been regarded as a masterpiece from the day it was finished ... " Both of the architects , Charles Mewès and Arthur J. Davis , were educated at the prestigious École des Beaux @-@ Arts in Paris , and the education which they received is clear in the design of the buildings , particularly the Renaissance influence , delivering " an authentic fabric of traditional French classicism " . Mewès had previously designed the Hotel Ritz of Paris for Cesar in 1897 @-@ 8 , after which he met Arthur Davis , and began working together preparing designs for the Grand Petit Palais in the Paris Exhibition of 1900 . Both architects worked on the plans for the London Ritz in 1904 @-@ 5 . 
