Six Senses London

William Whiteley opened a drapery at 31 Westbourne Grove in 1863 and spent four decades expanding along the street. In 1907 Horace Rayner, who believed Whiteley was his father, asked him for money at his office, was refused, and shot him dead. The Queensway store came after, drawn by John Belcher and John James Joass, opened by the Lord Mayor in 1911, and fitted with a theatre and a golf course on the roof. The facade is listed, and it is most of what survives.

AvroKO drew the interiors and EPR Architects built them out, around a lobby lightwell two storeys high with two trees standing in it. There are 109 rooms and suites, the smallest 32 square metres and the largest 170, that one with a further 125 square metres of roof terrace. Fourteen residences occupy the same building.

The spa takes 2,300 square metres and a London Underground station as its model. A 20-metre pool, six treatment rooms, cryotherapy, flotation and red light therapy, a recovery lounge and a longevity clinic sit inside it, along with the first magnesium pool in a London hotel.

Whiteley's Kitchen, Bar and Cafe runs modern British on the ground floor under Eliano Crespi, and the Alchemy Bar mixes herbal blends to order from seasonal British botanicals. Six Senses Place, the members' floor, takes the first floor, lit from the glass dome over the courtyard.