Of all London's boutique inns, this Chelsea hotel succeeds the best at leaving behind the aura of impersonal hotel to create instead a cozy private home feel—with discreet hotel comforts—in a building from the 1800s
This Old World, clubby Mayfair hotel with a residential ambiance is consistently lauded for its service, food, and ambiance
A five-star, countryside-meets–modern design hotel perfectly sited between the west End, British Museum, and Marylebone
The Pelham is an oasis of tranquility in a busy road hub in South Kensington, mere steps from a Tube stop and blocks from the shopping of Brompton Road
Eight elegant, bookish-themed B&B rooms above a gourmet pub in Clerkenwell
Public payphones are disappearing everywhere in the mobile era, and of the some 47,000 phone kiosks remaining on British streets, fewer than 11,000 are that iconic, classic red phone box.
The two most popular variations of this British classic were designed in the 1920s and 30s by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott—same bloke who did the Bankside power station that now houses the Tate Modern. Its design and domed top were supposedly inspired by Sir John Soane's tomb in the yard at St Pancras Old Church.
More on phone kiosks (and those blue, Doctor Who police boxes): The-telephone-box.co.uk