The showstopper is the ROOM, British sculptor Antony Gormley’s geometric suite that doubles as an art installation. A narrow marble staircase leads from the bedroom to a dark, oakwood space, the room’s sole window the only opening for light. The effect: all-consuming darkness designed to clear the mind.  

Corbin & King, the restaurant group behind some of London’s top restaurants such as The Wolseley and The Delaunay, designed their first hotel with the 1920s in mind. Located in Mayfair’s Brown Hart Gardens, an Art Deco style fills the 73 rooms—wood millwork paneling, bronze mirrors, silk furnishings—though the amenities are cutting-edge (bathrooms are fashioned with heated mosaic tiles). At the timeless Colony Grill, adorned in murals by artist John Mattos, no-frills English and American classics sit side-by-side on the menu, from New York-inspired hot dogs to shepherd’s pie. Early-20th-century paintings and period antiques give the American bar, a welcome addition to the city’s two other notable Yankee drinking dens, the Savoy and Stafford hotels, a stately ambience. So too does the retro cocktail list that serves Prohibition-era drinks like the Bronx. The showstopper, however, is the ROOM, British sculptor Antony Gormley’s geometric suite that doubles as an art installation. A narrow marble staircase leads from the bedroom to a dark, oakwood space, the room’s sole window the only opening for light. The effect: all-consuming darkness designed to clear the mind.