A while ago we got an email from an Escher Alumni, Larry Jacobson explaining how the 9 Escher suites came to be named. To celebrate Escher and recent renovations, we will share one each day.

"Trantor Mir. This was a compromise between those who preferred Mir, which phonetically is the Russian word for peace, and Trantor, which is the planet at the 'center of the universe' in Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy."