The Istanbul EDITION's elegant, double-height domed lobby embellished with gold leaf and lined in silver travertine stone invite guests to feel as if they have entered a rare and special world. The soaring entrance leads to an onyx-walled, seated reception area, an elevator lobby decorated in gold mosaic tiles, and a sweepingly dramatic open staircase in silver travertine and rosewood rising to the Drawing Room on the hotel's mezzanine floor. The lobby is framed on one side by a dramatic, wall-sized aquarium populated by exotic fish, forming an incandescent screen between the Lobby and the Gold Bar.