"Upstairs, the mood remains tactile yet restrained: oak, stone, brass, and linen of the artfully crumpled sort"
"The original carcass was the Olympic Palace, a post-war slab, once home to men in suits and heft glasses, and women in stiff hair"
The historic Gothic fantasia of the reopened St. Pancras Hotel now has some not-so-new competition in the form of Victorian London's original railway hotel
Russell Norman on how London got turned on to the filament light bulb
