An acronym from my former life working in finance there for you: Year to Date. Anyway, for no reason other than I want to (and it’s my blog, so why not?) here, in no particular order, is a selection of photos from my year so far. It’s been a good year; mostly interiors but with some variety, as well as the start of my personal project, Icelanders in London.
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Roulette wheel at Napoleon’s Casino, Leicester SquareParvati the Elephant outside the Apex Temple Court hotel, LondonElÃn, one of the Icelanders in London from my eponymous projectThe courtyard at the Dickensian hotel The Rookery in the heart of LondonFood available at the Icon Hotel in LutonThe Cathedral at Quimper, Brittany, FranceA military monument at Cap de la Chèvre, Brittany, FranceCharlotte, another of the Icelanders in LondonThe sun begins to rise over a misty Aquadrome in RickmansworthSally Miller, a contortionist, makes the letter H as part of a promo shoot for the film The Last Exorcism Part 2Dewdrops on grass at the Aquadrome in RickmansworthThe leisure room in Hotel Xenia, LondonThe very modern Bishop Challoner School in east LondonThe very modern Bishop Challoner School in east LondonKarate demonstrationEmma Barton, Vicki Michelle and Kellie Shirley at a special charity screening of Run for your WifeLeaf skeletonMirrors in a walk-in wardrobe for an interior design clientBookshelf and easy chair for an interior design client
Well, while I can’t quite match the impressive hotels seen on the Telegraph’s travel page, I CAN share with you some of the best ones I’ve visited in the past year or so. Here are some of my favourites, in no particular order.
The Town Hall hotel in Bethnal Green is full of Art Deco highlights, such as that cubic clock, the marble pillars and the star on the floor.
The Town Hall Hotel in Bethnal Green, London
CitizenM London Bankside is the Dutch hotel chain’s first London based property. Guests check themselves in on arrival, and can relax in this ultra modern, eccentrically-lit rest area on the ground floor.
The CitizenM London Bankside
The South Place Hotel was designed by the world famous Conran partnership with wonderful detailing throughout, like the photomosaic tiling on the pillars and the log-pile wallpaper surrounding the slate fireplace.
London’s South Place Hotel, in Moorgate
The Hempel Hotel is a minimalist’s dream, and after dark the lighting in the lobby changes colour to match the floral arrangement on the reception desk.
The Hempel Hotel in Bayswater, London
In Birmingham’s Rotunda, the Staying Cool apartments have a sparse, narrow corridor as the lobby, illuminated by long aluminium poles with colour-changing LEDs set into each one.
Had a bit of a reshuffle of my interiors portfolio today to reflect some of the hotels I’ve visited more recently.
I’ve also renamed the ‘urban’ gallery to ‘architecture‘ for (hopefully) obvious reasons, and there are a few new pics in there taken with the tilt/shift lenses.
