I’ve worked with the team at Design’d Living for a few years. It’s always a pleasure. They asked me to contribute a guest blog on my thoughts about key travel destinations from a travel writer’s design perspective. The first destination… London town
The London Look
Having lived in Notting Hill’s elegant Regency streets in the 90s, I now visit London as a travel writer. Travelling from my home in rural Scotland, a trip south always brings a frisson of adventure – combining food, friends, culture, and usually somewhere fabulous to stay.
My instinct about whether a hotel is great or not has a lot to do with design. With that in mind, London packs a punch. From the Art Deco grandeur of The Savoy, whose polished black and white chequerboard floor is always the entrance to a fun evening, to Claridge’s, with a similar shining floor but a grander opulence overall, greeting you with a Medusa-like Art Deco chandelier and sturdy marble pillars. Both hotels feel at the heart of things – relevant and still places to see and be seen….
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