The logo of the chic hotel NoMad has presented its first outdoor assets in the U. S. U. S. In London in the historic grade II indexed building, formerly the Magistrates’ Court and the Bow Street Police Station. The Magistrates’ Court is an excellent room, now used for personal events. In collaboration with New York-based interior design studio Roman and Williams, the transformation of nineteenth-century construction is fostered through its history and location in Covent Garden, while highlighting the artistic and cultural link between London and New York.
The Roman and Williams studio is well known for its paintings in hotels, restaurants, commercial spaces, homes, product design from the United States to Europe and Asia. Large-scale projects come with Ace Hotel New York, Standard Highline, Freehand Hotels, Le Coucou, Fitzroy, Aoyama Treehouse, as well as many personal apartments from Montauk to Montecito. They also redesigned the British Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which opened in March 2020.
The NoMad offers seven types of rooms and suites ranging from the vintage suite to the Royal Opera suite. The 91 rooms (including thirteen suites) are an impressive combination of fresh and antique design in soft and sublime colors with well-chosen art in the room. Art is a key component of both, and both the NoMad hotel and the London assets have 1700 works of art. The rooms have 8 to 18 rooms, while the suites have between 29 and 48 rooms. The bathrooms (some with curlers) make it a fabulous stay. The sumptuous superior suite overlooks the glass ceiling of the Royal Opera House across the street.
Breakfast is served in the library stocked with books and art, also a wonderful place for an afternoon coffee. In the backyard that was once the training backyard for the Bow Street Magistrates Court inmates, is the spacious main dining room of London’s new NoMad Hotel. It’s hard to believe that the area was in its previous incarnation because this eating position is one of the best eating positions in the capital. A glass ceiling means that it is filled with soft herbs and the decoration is charming. Executive Chef Ashley Abodeely’s stellar menu includes flavorful and artistic dishes like suckling pig confit with wild vegetables, avocado and crab soup with lime slush, and raw sea bream with radish, mint and marinated strawberries. The trendy bar, Side Hustle, on the site of the old police station, is NoMad’s edition of the classic British pub, with Mexican dishes to share. The team of experts under the direction of the bar manager, Pietro Collina, is aimed at a wide variety of agave-based liqueurs and cocktails: indulge in Mai Tai, served in a ceramic skull.
Visiting the new and attractive bow street police museum, adjacent, is also a must for any stay at the NoMad, with free admission for hotel guests. The police station was used until 1992 and the museum has preserved the original cells. remarkable task of telling the story of the police on Bow Street dating back to the eighteenth century, when Thomas de Veil opened a magistrates’ court in the home of his circle of relatives at number four Bow Street. Here took place the greatest vital advances of criminal justice, from the creation of the Bow Street Runners (London’s first official police service) to fashionable extradition instances such as those bought against Chilean general and politician José Ramón Pinochet.
Art in NoMad hotels is thoroughly selected with original works commissioned. London’s assets are no exception and art lovers can enjoy a considered variety of postwar American and European avant-garde art. Most of the art on display at the hotel are original pieces. , adding photographs, collages, watercolors, oil and gouache paintings, sketches in colored pencil and graphite, exhibition posters, ceramics, tapestries, lithographs and engravings. The Side Hustle bar features six photographs of Bow Street Police through British artist Martin Parr.
NoMad London, 28 Bow Street, London WC2E 7AW Tel. 44 (0)20 3906 1600 Classic double rooms from £455/night. Check out special offers (August 2021 rates start at £356).
I have written about travel, food, fashion and culture over the past decade for various publications. I co-founded PayneShurvell, a fresh art gallery in
I have written about travel, food, fashion and culture over the past decade for a variety of publications. I co-founded PayneShurvell, a fresh art gallery in London that is now an art consulting company in London and Suffolk. My photographer husband Paul Allen supplies photographs for my reporting that come with a musical or artistic occasion and our travels have taken us under the radar of music and art festivals in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. I co-author the Citysketch eBook series that comes with London, Paris and New York, published through Race Point and am the writer of Fantastic Forgeries: Paint Like Van Gogh. Follow our adventures on Twitter in @jshurvell and on Instagram in @joshurvell and @andfotography.