"That wouldn't be entirely fair, but there's no escaping the fact that chef Jason Atherton's ground-floor Berners Tavern is the palpitating heart of the hotel. The lobby cocktail bar, oak-panelled, reservation-only Punch Room and nightclub Basement only increase the pulse-rate. Once upon a time this was five lovely 1835 townhouses, which were combined in 1910 to create the Berners Hotel."
"Pushelberg imagined the 173 rooms as like cabins on a yacht. They're clean, crisp and wood-panelled, with a vague sense of the midcentury and gilt-framed portraits by the Dutch photographer Henriks Kerstens: think Girl With a Pearl Earring reimagined by a Noughties Shoreditch creative studio. They are also marvellously quiet, a perfect antidote to the hubbub below. Toby Skinner Price: Rooms from around 409 per night."
Berners Tavern anchors a lively hotel combining Edwardian façade and public grandeur with contemporary design and energetic bars, including a lobby cocktail bar, reservation-only Punch Room and Basement nightclub. The original five 1835 townhouses were combined in 1910 to create Berners Hotel; the property joined Ian Schrager's Edition brand in 2013 with a Yabu Pushelberg design and Christian Liaigre furniture. Pushelberg envisioned 173 rooms as yacht-like cabins: clean, wood-panelled, midcentury-tinged, with gilt-framed Henriks Kerstens portraits and remarkably quiet rooms. Room rates start from around 409 per night. A former War Office was converted into a Raffles property after a 1.5 billion investment, yielding 120 rooms, nine restaurants, three bars, a 20-metre pool and a 27,000-square-foot Guerlain spa following a seven-year, 80-foot excavation.
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