Doma | Little National Hotel Sydney | Sydney NSWHotels

 Doma Hotels was honoured to have the second property in its Little National chain – Little National Sydney – recognised for its outstanding interior design and be named ‘Best New Build Property Hotel Design’ in the third annual Paul Davis Hotel Design Awards at the Australasian Hotel Industry Conference and Exhibition (AHICE) in Adelaide.

Little National Sydney opened in November 2020 and Doma worked closely with Bates Smart architects.

The Little National Hotel Sydney is a boutique hotel located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It's part of the Little National Hotel brand, known for its modern and minimalist design, catering to the needs of modern travelers seeking comfort and convenience.

The developer behind the Little National Hotel brand is the Doma Group, a property development company based in Canberra, Australia. The Doma Group has a strong reputation for creating innovative and stylish properties, ranging from residential to commercial developments.

The investment story of the Little National Hotel Sydney likely revolves around the growing demand for boutique and design-driven accommodation options in Sydney's vibrant hospitality market. With its strategic location, stylish design, and focus on providing a unique guest experience, the hotel likely attracted investment interest from both domestic and international investors looking to capitalize on the booming tourism industry in Sydney.

Sartoria Lamberti, Moscow - Russia

A conceptual Italian restaurant at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, curated the chef Uilliam Lamberti, conceived as being a place where passion for fashion and food mingle, creating an experience attacking all the senses.

Guests are immersed in a vast range of sensations - where dish presentation, interior design and lighting, smells and sounds, textures and colors, lure into the world of top-class style and exquisite Italian cuisine.

At the core of this concept is the love for Italian fashion and craftsmanship.

Everything here is about the sartoria - of fashion, of food, of life. Not only the actual sartoria attributes - the patterns cabinets, the tailors sartoria and costumes displays. But the open kitchen is an arrangement of the sewing desks. The seating next to the kitchen is like a dressing room. The Tailor sofas are as stacks of fabrics. The brass columns were inspired by the tailor's thimbles, adorning the name of the restaurant.

The Apartments by 11 Cadogan Gardens: Inside Iconic Luxury Hotels’ new London luxury residences for rent

 By John O’Ceallaigh

The clue’s in the name: Britain’s Iconic Luxury Hotels is known for its storied hotels. But the company’s latest launch is a departure from that norm – and it feels like a sign of things to come as hotel groups the world over modify their approach to hospitality. With its portfolio comprising English grande dame Cliveden and the likes of Chewton Glen, in April the group launched The Apartments by 11 Cadogan Gardens, a collection of six fully serviced apartments discreetly set in an elegant red-brick in a particularly salubrious stretch of Chelsea. 

Each occupying a single floor of the building, the one-, two- and three-bed apartments are just around the corner from Iconic Luxury Hotels’ 11 Cadogan Gardens. It means Apartments guests will have immediate access to the hotel’s facilities, should they want them, including concierge services and the gym, alongside use of its cosy lounge and priority bookings at the hotel’s popular Hans’ Bar and Grill on pretty, pedestrianised Pavilion Road – a three-minute walk from The Apartments’ front door. 

I stayed in the ground-floor one-bedroom apartment about two weeks before England’s hotels, museums, galleries and various other tourist attractions were permitted to open fully on May 17, and while the city was quiet and 11 Cadogan Gardens remained closed, The Apartments were already doing a roaring trade. Fully booked the week before my arrival and also at capacity during my stay, they’ve been met with enthusiasm by business travellers, fans of the ILH brand and newcomers finding their footing in the city. One booking concurrent to mine was held by an American family looking to acquire a home in the area. 

Whichever apartment they stay in, guests will reside in bright, spacious and airy properties. Kitchens are fitted with Bosch appliances (though mine was too small for serious chefs and I expect many well-off residents will order takeaways or room service from Hans’ Bar and Grill, which is unpretentious, delicious and very reasonably priced for Chelsea). London-based Atellior architecture and interior-design studio is responsible for the apartments’ look and drew inspiration from the building’s Victorian heritage and the likes of the nearby Chelsea Flower Show. Though those nods are subtle, guests will notice botanical wallpapers and complementary Taschen titles strewn throughout. 

Still, with 11 Cadogan Gardens such an extravagant, opulent hotel – during my tour I was almost taken aback by the gilt and glass Mirror Room, oversized beds with dramatically embellished headboards, and the atmospheric old portraits that hung along the stairwell – I think the apartments’ designers had the opportunity to show a touch more personality. It’s a common challenge when hotels the world over introduce apartments and residences into their inventories: fun flourishes that might seem exuberant and quirky when spending a night or two away on holiday can quickly become ostentatious and overbearing if spending time somewhere indefinitely. 

Hotel and apartments manager Ian Richardson is giving that conundrum some consideration currently. He spoke to me about potentially adding more throws and soft touches to each property. I’d welcome the likes of more ambitious floral displays and bespoke amenities to go alongside the breakfast bakery basket and Noble Isle bathroom products that await every new arrival. A friend who stayed in The Apartments before me told me a teepee had been erected in their living room as a surprise playpen, complete with soft toys and cookies, for her young daughter. Thoughtful, creative additions like that will come to make such a difference to the long-term reputation and success of The Apartments. 

One facet that will also be appreciated by all is the access guests gain to the private Cadogan Gardens. An old stone stairwell led directly from my ground-floor apartment to the lawn, while guests on other levels can arrange for hotel staff to unlock the gates that lead to this immaculate little square. Catered by the hotel, picnics can be taken on the lawn in summer and a spread of benches make ideal book-reading perches; during my stay, I enjoyed an evening beer under the shade of a cherry blossom tree with my feet at rest on a carpet of pastel-pink petals. Though the property is a four-minute walk from Sloane Street Station, at night the surrounding neighbourhood feels remarkably peaceful and tranquil. 

In fact, while many international visitors might choose The Apartments for their proximity to the likes of the Saatchi Gallery and shopping on Sloane Street and the King’s Road, I think they’ll be just as impressed by the elegant expressions of rarefied London life that surround them. 

Some of the capital’s most elegant boulevards and mews encircle this enclave of Chelsea and my favourite activity here was roaming the sidestreets around me. This is where many of the world’s wealthiest reside – although the concentration of supercars was expected, I was surprised to see through the windows of one nearby mansion that a spiralling metal slide cut through its multiple levels. For future guests at The Apartments I think it will be a pleasant fantasy to live, briefly, alongside them.

London Home Has a Pool That Pops Up Into Screening Room

 

The glass-fronted Eglon House, in north London’s bohemian Primrose Hill neighborhood, looks straight out of the wild imagination of US-born film director Tim Burton.

Sitting on the former site of a landmark recording studio, where the likes of David Bowie, Tina Turner and Pink Floyd made hits, this cavernous 13,154-square-foot live/work space is like a shimmering Art Deco glass jewelry box that’s been dropped into a sleepy, slightly gritty London back alley.

Made up of two separate buildings linked by a subterranean level that has its own swimming pool and cinema, this cavernous, four-story, five-bedroom is nothing less than a modern masterpiece.

The home’s architectural significance comes from its glass-block facades, inspired by the iconic “Maison de Verre” (house of glass) in Paris. Built in 1932 by the architect Pierre Chareau, the maison is still considered a blueprint for today’s work-at-home thinking.   

Which is reportedly what attracted Burton to Eglon House in 2016, just months after the home’s completion. The director had been commissioned by Disney to create a live-action remake of the animated classic Dumbo, starring Danny DeVito, Colin Farrell and Eva Green.

Seems he used the home’s west wing as his film studio and personal living space, and the east wing to provide accommodations for his creative team. If there looks to be an over-abundance of closet space and dressing areas, this is why.

Burton rented the residence until the film’s completion in 2019, which is when he transferred to a rambling north London mansion he bought, for $14 million, from Shirley Valentine actor Tom Conti.

Anyone looking for a glamorous, elegant location for a London town home likely won’t find it with Eglon House. Rustic, nondescript metal gates off Primrose Hill’s Berkley Road open on to the slightly unkempt, cobbled cul-de-sac that’s Eglon Mews, and that sounds like just the sort of thing Burton might seek out.

Originally used to provide horse stables for the once grander homes on surrounding streets, the Mews is currently a mishmash of 10 or so, now-pricey, two-story Victorian row homes.

Over the years, the buildings on the current site of Eglon House housed a shell-casing factory during the First World War, then a milk dairy, and more recently, the world-renowned Mayfair Recording Studios.

Development of the site began in the late 1990s with leading London architects Chassay Last and design house Russell Sage Studios called in to create the property.

A stone-tiled courtyard separates the two buildings and provides coveted off-street parking for a couple of cars—alas, even $27 million won’t buy you a garage to keep your Range Rover dry.

A stairway off the courtyard leads down into that vast, subterranean space with its 40-by-23-foot family room, a bar, sauna and steam room.

Arguably the area’s piece de resistance is its swimming pool; at the touch of a button, the entire pool floor raises up to create a multi-use space. With a 10-foot wide LED screen nearby—naturally it’s waterproof—bring in a few sofas and it makes a perfect movie screening room.

Take the winding staircase, or elevator, up to the first floor and in the west building lies the kitchen/breakfast space and dining room. Over on the east wing, you’ll fined a living room and garden room.

The second floor comprises the huge, 2,000-square-foot primary suite on the west side, a bedroom and study to the east. The top floor on the west side is home to yet another expansive live/work area with its own outdoor terrace, and two more bedrooms eastside.

Before Burton, 62, started his three-year rental, seems the developer/owner—he’s remaining anonymous—listed the property in late 2015 for £24m, or almost $30 million. With no takers, it was offered for rent at $161,000 a month.

Now, six years on, leading London realtors Aston Chase has Eglon House listed for £20 million ($27 million).

“Eglon House is a unique home without parallel in London,” says Mark Pollack, cofounding director with Aston Chase. “It is one of a kind, and represents a perfect opportunity for a discerning purchaser who values privacy and the ability to have flexible living/work accommodation.”