HOTEL REVIEW
ABOVE & TOP RIGHT: Lowinfo created the concrete bar the Secret Garden and low slung concrete table in South Place. Dernier & Hamlyn supplied the 10m long trough style chandelier in polished steel ABOVE RIGHT: The ‘Le Chiffre’ games room, named after a Bond villain, has a gentlemen’s club feel with sofas and armchairs by Baxter and Afghan rugs supplied by a family business in North East London
and HP Sauce. Elsewhere, a specially- commissioned triptych depicts moths made from intricately cut up vintage porn periodicals.
The lobby area features high-backed wing
chairs in mustard coloured fabrics, with jade and turquoise coloured curtains, huge sawn logs and parquet flooring.
The centrepiece of the 3 South Place bar and restaurant is a long, low concrete table created by Lowinfo, above which hangs a bespoke trough-style chandelier in polished stainless steel by Dernier & Hamlyn. Angler Restaurant, situated on the seventh
floor, offers a more formal dining experience, with a menu of British seafood. The dining room design is pared back, with mirrored foliage screens on the walls and ceiling enhancing the sense of space and maximising the light through the sloping floor-to-ceiling windows. A stunning roof terrace looks out over the adjacent office buildings and has an
open grill for barbeques when the weather permits.
A stellar cast of suppliers, sourced by procurement agency The Park Company, have been involved. There are sofas by B&B Italia, Muuto and Knoll. Dining chairs are by Accademia and Porada. Other items were custom-made to Conran & Partners designs by Imagine Interiors, Soficon and Howe. Lighting suppliers include Erco, Moooi, Foscarini, Artemide and Santa & Cole. Dernier & Hamlyn produced statement fittings for 3 South Place Restaurant, 3 South Place Bar and for one of the first floor meeting rooms, as well as more than 300 pendant and reading lights for the hotel’s 80 bedrooms. Guestrooms feature desk chairs by Knoll
and armchairs by Artifort. Bang & Olufsen 40-inch Beovision 10 TVs are fitted as standard. Beds are swathed in Josephine Home bed linen, with cashmere-wrapped mattresses by Hypnos. Utopia Projects
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supplied all bathroom fittings, including sanitaryware and ceramics from Duravit, Viega and Hansgrohe. The welcome box is designed by Studio Conran (the graphics wing of the Conran empire) with a bespoke, hand-drawn map by Emily Chappell, and hand-cast resin pieces of British printed ephemera by AMD Interior Architects. The hotel’s jewel in the crown is a ‘secret
garden’ atrium bar on the first floor, with a bespoke sculpture by Grace and Webb. This open-air space offers a rare sanctuary in the heart of the city with its water feature and concrete bar, also created by Lowinfo. The five private rooms on the same floor take their names from fictional spies, in a nod to a spy ring which operated in nearby Moorgate in the 1920s. Alongside them, Le Chiffre, the residents’ games room has a private members club feel with a roaring fire, well-stocked library and an extensive vinyl record collection. The smart aesthetics
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