C'mon, admit it. You're Schragered out. Sick of paper-skinny girlies sipping thin drinks at The Sanderson's Long Bar or daintily avoiding fusion-minimal nibbles at Asia de Cuba? We've got the inside track on where the boys are hanging. |
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The Waldorf (acquired from Le Meridien last January) is unveiling a £30m refurbishment that's a curvy Edwardian belle to Ian's waif-er thin supermodel. A team of designers - including Aukett's Jane Johnson for the lobby - have spent Hilton's money on turning the Aldwych's white elephant into a twenty-first century mecca of cool. The Palm Court has been gloriously restored and there's 300 bedrooms where you have a décor choice - the ultimate consumerist option - "design" or "contemporary". But the icing on the how-cool-is-this-cake is definitely Homage. In a paean to fin-de-siècle Vienna, Homage - a fluid space that stretches from the Bar to the Grand Salon's dining room - has an eclectic interior, blending original features (the Patisserie's an oak-panelled haven) with modern art from Bruce McLean, Martin Fuller and Sir Peter Blake. Theatreland just got hip. You heard it here first. |
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