Another glimpse at Café Royal...

Hotel Café Royal , London

 

Once famous as a West End meeting place for artists and intellectuals, the Café Royal is reopening in the summer of 2012 as a hotel of The Set. This is the return of a London institution that, throughout its 150 year history, has periodically reinvented itself to define the moods, social mores and style of the capital.




The new 159-room luxury hotel is striking in the bold simplicity of its conception and true to the glamorous spirit of the Café Royal. It offers an Akasha Holistic Wellbeing Centre, including pool, gym, spa, yoga and meditation studios, as well as restaurants, bars and the famous Grill Room and Domino Room to be presided over by one of London’s leading chefs.
Interpreting this famous establishment on Regent Street and translating it into the modern context is David Chipperfield Architects. The result is a perfect balance of 21st century style with the famous Grade I listed 1860s and 1920s public rooms of the original, which have been preserved. The development has taken three years to complete.