On a tree lined street in London's Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea stands The Knightsbridge Hotel. |
Kit and Tim Kemp have spun magic for their company Firmdale in creating eight boutique hotels in London and one in New York that feel as if you are in a private home. The Soho Hotel, Covent Garden Hotel, Charlotte Street Hotel and Ham Yard Hotel have their own state of the art screening rooms. Kit Kemp has created rugs and fabrics and tea sets and her design book A LIVING SPACE as well as the luxurious Rik Rack collection of bespoke bath products for each guest room. I have had the FIRMDALE collection https://www.firmdalehotels.com on my radar for quite some time. |
The Knightsbridge lobby where drinks are served, papers are read, one awaits their taxi. |
Great tubs of champagne and wine make this table groan at 5 p.m., or, if you prefer, afternoon tea first at 4. |
The beds are a marvel. I've already messed up the perfect bed which can be seen on their website. https://www.firmdalehotels.com/hotels/london/knightsbridge-hotel/rooms-suites/single-rooms/ The bed is dressed in Frette linens, down pillows and duvets, and there is the Rik Rack Collection in the bath, a jammed mini bar, flat screens, wifi, granite bathrooms, oh, the correct placement of handbars, robes and towel warmers in the bath, it's all there. It's luxurious and embracing…and a girl can stay there alone and feel as if she owns the place. |
Lovely way to give the room another layer of ambiance. |
How DO they make scrambled eggs taste better? Is it the butter? Is it the eggs? The butter is soft, the toast is hot, the coffee is delicious. I'm not kidding. Superb breakfast. |
Kit and Tim Kemp let their imagination run free in all of their London hotels. |
And their website shows last minute availability anywhere in London. That's what brought me here, last minute, easy and fun. Next stop, Charlotte Street Hotel https://www.firmdalehotels.com/hotels/london/charlotte-street-hotel/ in September for a walking Bloomsbury celebration, and The National Portrait Gallery Virginia Woolf Exhibition. http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/virginiawoolf/home.php https://www.firmdalehotels.com |
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