Claridge's

C. W. Stephens designed the present hotel, built between 1895 and 1898 for the Savoy Hotel Company, in red brick and red Mansfield stone with cast iron balconies, on the corner of Brook Street and Davies Street. Oswald Milne set a Portland stone entrance into the Brook Street front in 1929 and extended the hotel in 1930 and 1931. His ballroom followed in 1933. The art deco arrived thirty years after the bricks.

The front hall runs black and white marble in wide diamonds past a chimneypiece and a three bay arcade into the Foyer, where a Chihuly hangs above the deco mirrors and afternoon tea comes out on jade and white stripes. The Fumoir is a deco room Thierry Despont invented in the 1990s, lit through Lalique crystal panels, with William Klein portraits watching over it. In the ballroom, the chandeliers are replicas of bakelite originals.

Suites move from Victorian to deco to plain modern, and a stained glass panel of Damien Hirst's butterflies is set into the ceiling above the main staircase, seven flights up. Rémi Tessier's penthouse takes the entire roof: four bedrooms, seventy five Hirst works on loan from the artist and a nine metre heated pool of its own. Claridge's has been listed since 1981.