One Aldwych Reopens With a New Spring in its Step
London // 25 February 2025 – One Aldwych, London’s first five-star B Corp™ hotel, welcomes guests back with enhanced design and installation elements across its most iconic areas, namely the Lobby Bar, Indigo restaurant and its Signature Suites. London-based designers Fabled Studio were invited back to the hotel to further re-imagine the seminal Lobby Bar and Indigo restaurant, adding layers of modernity and heritage influence in equal measure.
Harnessing the progressive and unique energy the hotel embodies, the new installation within the Lobby Bar is a bold design-art sculptural ceiling that coronates this dramatic space, aligning with the modern art collection the hotel showcases and champions. This intervention comprises of a large-scale organic ceiling sculpture, a flowing and amorphous metallicized texture ripples throughout the space and brings a striking depth, clarity and intrigue to the interior. Enhanced further by a recently launched Gallery cocktail list of exquisite drinks inspired by individual pieces from the hotel’s impressive art collection.
Indigo restaurant has also been deeply embellished with a further nod to the building’s heritage. Deepset arched windows looking outward of the restaurant onto the hustle and bustle of theatreland are now lined in English oak, embodying the texture and detail of the original historic and listed windows. Modern lighting coffers and patterned wall coverings add layers of intimacy and comfort that create a buzzing tension with the colourful and striking abstract art pieces hung throughout this truly modern British brasserie. The restaurant reopens with a new spring menu from Executive Chef Dominic Teague packed with seasonal, British produce, in keeping with the hotel’s overarching ethos of championing the best of British makers and growers.
Steven Saunders, a Founder of Fabled Studio commented, ‘At One Aldwych, we have been given an expansive creative freedom aligning with their bold vision, owing to the hotel’s independent status and spirit, and we are proud to add these modern embellishments to one of London’s most iconic hotels’. New styling to two of the hotel’s Signature Suites – The Somerset and The Waterloo Bridge – which were designed by Robert Angell in 2019, include the addition of interesting objets by American potter
and interior decorator Jonathan Adler. In response to the high demand for flexible family accommodation, The Somerset Suite can now be configured with four spacious bedrooms and the hotel has adapted two bedrooms into dedicated twins for families coming to explore Covent Garden. One Aldwych’s Managing Director, Janine Marshall, commented ‘These works mark an exciting period in One Aldwych’s evolution and have been led by our desire to continually adapt to guest demand and create the best possible experience, from style through to service. We want our design to reflect our independence, as a brand and as a building, which we feel we have captured working with incredible design talent such as Fabled Studio, over the years’.
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About One Aldwych
Covent Garden’s cultured, independent hotel – a true modern oasis, privately-owned, standing proud within the distinctive, stand-alone, triangular building, former home of the great Morning Post newspaper, at the point where the City meets the West End. With stunning spacious, clean, contemporary interiors by Fabled Studio and
Robert Angell, embellished with Art Nouveau flourishes inspired by the building – and spirited English touches – warm, welcoming and a little unconventional. The result is an exquisite, expressive, original style as befits a truly independent London hotel. Covent Garden’s neighbourhood restaurant, Indigo, is the home of simply delicious dishes by Chef Dominic Teague, using ingredients from the best British independent producers – while the hotel’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory inspired afternoon tea is a firm favourite with young and old alike. Other facilities include the Lobby Bar, The Library, and Health Club with 18-metre / 59-foot chlorine-free swimming pool, spa and gym. One Aldwych is the proud recipient of One Key in the inaugural Michelin Guide to Hotels 2024 and achieved B Corp status in September 2024.
To Stay
Enjoy spring at One Aldwych with a weekend or Easter stay including breakfast each morning and lunch or dinner in Indigo. For details of all offers visit www.onealdwych.com/offers
