Sleeper March/April 2010

HOTEL REVIEW
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TOP LEFT: The Martini Library features tall bookcases, This potentially disparate set of spaces now have collaborated with bar and restaurant
handwoven rugs and a bespoke vintage Martini cabinet
sits together remarkably well, considering branding specialists The Gorgeous Group
TOP RIGHT: Guestrooms combine striking wallpaper designs
there are ten different design schemes for the to create and design a collection of areas
with luxurious fabrics
bedrooms, and four F&B areas. imbued with a timeless sense of glamour.
As guests enter, they are immediately Le Salon, the Cocktail Bar and the Kitchen
latter stages fast-tracked in a 12 month offered glimpses through dark stained timber restaurant area are open plan to one another,
programme of works culminating in the and glass screens of the reception, lounge but each forms its own environment. Although
ofﬁcial launch in January 2010. ReardonSmith and study. There is a conﬁdent mix of bold each area is carefully delineated from the
Architects originally obtained planning original artwork, sumptuous ﬁnishes and other, the space ﬂows harmoniously with the
permission for the development in 2004, with elegant, modern and classical furnitures. separate areas demarked by features such
Graham Seabrook Partnership later taking The lobby features a a reception desk in as voluptuous, semi-circular ﬂoor-to-ceiling
on responsibility for the shell and core, with Nero Portoro marble with a deep-buttoned leather banquettes with shimmering sheer
RDD plc handling the space planning and upholstered leather front. Behind the desk a curtain surrounds; a dark, gloss brick wine
interior design. large video wall offers a constantly changing dispenser, and the pewter fronted, pearl-
Behind the elegant restored Portland stone projected artscape. etched glass cocktail bar.
exterior, signiﬁcant structural alterations have Opposite, an electric blue wall sculpture A procession of contrasting light ﬁttings
taken place. At one end of the building, recalls and vivid crimson leather bench provide a leads the eye through the room. In Le Salon,
Jeremy Scarlett, the RDD Director leading counterpoint. The study area has black and cascading columns of lit glass rods illuminate
the design team, only the façade was retained, silver hand printed wallcoverings, a bespoke each dining table. In the central bar area, three
with an entirely new structure created behind. red lacquered writing desk and a deep red large clusters of brosilicate lamps, supplied by
Other areas of the hotel have been converted and black sofa accented with black and cream R&S Robertson, are suspended from a pressed
from the existing set of buildings, which geometric cushions. Here, as throughout the tin ceiling. Towards the Kitchen dining area,
combined a mixture of ofﬁces and residential hotel, the designers have used every square industrial-style pendants by Original BTC
accommodation – occupied by squatters when inch of space, delineating areas with a speciﬁc deﬁne a more down-to-earth, inclusive tone.
the team started on site – with the existing function by careful deployment of lighting and The Martini Library is set apart from the
Bryanston Court hotel, acquired by AB Hotels furniture pieces. other HUNter 486 areas, along a corridor
as the linchpin for the development. Floors The Cocktail Bar, Le Salon du Champagne, which forms a transitional zone between the
were dropped, ramps inserted, heights juggled Kitchen restaurant and Martini Library form buzz of the bar and the tranquility of the
and holes punched through from one building a family of spaces united under the banner of Library, reminiscent of a private townhouse
to the other to create the smoothly ﬂowing ‘HUNter 486’, named after the Marylebone drawing room with its charming “collectibles”
layout of the new hotel. direct dialling code of the 1950s. Here, RDD – coffee table books jostling for space
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