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19 stories from London: 4 places to stay, 9 to eat and drink, 4 to see, and 2 clubs and wellness. Restaurants that double as galleries: India Mahdavi’s second Gallery at Sketch, Pollini at Ladbroke Hall and Red Deer’s Ochre at the National Gallery.

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British Airways’ New Heathrow Lounges Keep a Detail From 1932

Bars & Restaurants

El Fenn at Broadwick Soho: you cannot move a view, so you move everything else

Landmarks & Attractions

The Royal Exchange’s Christmas Lights Change Every Year. Its Real Emblem Has Watched for 460.

Bars & Restaurants

The Art of Après: Inside sketch London’s Five-Room Christmas Transformation

Landmarks & Attractions

Paul Smith’s Christmas Tree Finds a New Stage at the Royal Opera House

Landmarks & Attractions

Hampton Court Palace gardens: five centuries of design, and the first scheme built for the climate

Hotels & Resorts

Beaverbrook Town House: Two Masters of British Persuasion Share One Chelsea Address

Design Travel

British Airways’ New First Class Suite Comes From the Studio That Gave Jony Ive His Start

Bars & Restaurants

A room in two layers: Vincenzo De Cotiis and Linda Boronkay at Pollini, Ladbroke Hall

Bars & Restaurants

Nothing touches the walls: Red Deer’s Ochre at the National Gallery

Bars & Restaurants

A room built to be rehung: India Mahdavi’s second Gallery at Sketch

Hotels & Resorts

The Londoner: Built With the Same Tiles as the Odeon Cinema It Replaced

Hotels & Resorts

Mondrian Shoreditch: On the Street Named for Shakespeare’s Own Playhouse

Bars & Restaurants

Here, There and Everywhere: sketch London’s Christmas of 2019

Bars & Restaurants

Lucky Cat, Mayfair: the room Afroditi Krassa built from texture instead of contrast

Hotels & Resorts

The Standard, London: The Council’s Own Architects Built This First

Bars & Restaurants

Four rooms in eighteen months: the sketch refresh that nobody wrote about

Bars & Restaurants

Mei Ume: AB Concept took the building’s own trade and told it from the other end

Private Members Clubs

Chess Club, Mayfair: The Members’ Club That Plays Against the Rules

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