"The problem is not the missing pool, nor the invitation to do less. It is the difference between being left alone and being left unattended"
"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
