ST MARTINS LANE
| Address | 45 St Martins Lane; London WC2N 4HX |
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| Neighbourhood | Covent Garden | See on map |
| Tube | Leicester Square [Northern, Piccadilly] |
| Telephone | +44 20 7300 5500 |
| Website | http://www.stmartinslane.com/ |
| Price | From £215 | Check availability |
Ian Schrager and Philippe Starck’s masterpiece on the border of the West End and Covent Garden is a study in design excellence. Rooms are totally minimalist, white spaces with modular storage that look like white lacquered totem poles, stark onyx desktops and pristine white sheets, lifted only by interactive light installations and a whimsical terracotta plant pot suspended from the wall.
Quirky interiors include a massive chess set in the lobby, in-house restaurant Asia De Cuba’s framed-portrait covered pillars and improbably long-legged stainless steel stools. Watch the building’s façade turn into a Rubik’s Cube of colour at night as each window takes on a different glowing hue, before nipping into the Light Bar or down to Amy Sacco's Bungalow 8 in the basement. Guests now also enjoy full-size health club facilities after the opening of a Gym Box below the hotel.
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Splendia
From its dazzling location at the hub of Covent Garden, West End theatres and Trafalgar Square, St Martins Lane is a dramatic and daring reinvention of the urban resort. Smart, witty and sophisticated, Philippe Starcks design is a brilliant collision of influences - from the modern to the baroque - that suffuses the hotel with energy, vitality and magic. Entered through improbably tall, luminescent yellow-glass revolving doors—the tallest in London—St Martins Lanes lobby is a soaring and theatrical space that offers a provocative manipulation of dimension and proportion. Starck presents a visually stunning play on scale, with oversized columns and angled niches painted a deep fluorescent yellow, complemented by Portuguese limestone floors. From its acid-etched, double-height yellow glass facade to its unpredictable plays on vivid color to the dramatic series of columns that appear as shining towers, St Martins Lanes lobby is a triumph of color and light.
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Tablet Hotels
17.5 of 20. Rooms are loft-style, open-plan, with a custom-designed lighting system allowing guests to set the mood with light in any color of the spectrum, emanating almost magically from a projector behind the headboard, an arrangement that makes use of the blank canvas provided by the rooms’ all-white color scheme. Windows are floor-to-ceiling, allowing for impressive views of central London—one of the benefits of retrofitting a Sixties office block rather than some Georgian landmark. As in any loft-style building, corner rooms will see the most light, and while at many hotels the “garden rooms” are those with inferior views, here it means something different; an outdoor patio with a touch of greenery provides a breath of fresh air.
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