英国伦敦博蒙特酒店
The Beaumont Hotel London England
www.thebeaumont.com/
伦敦博蒙特酒店
复苏战前梅菲尔的装饰艺术风
杰里米金和克里斯科宾联手创立的第一家酒店博蒙特栖身于一幢二级保护建筑中，建筑由20年代红透半边天的建筑师Wimperis & Simpson主理，落座伦敦梅菲尔腹地。酒店由伦敦知名的Corbin & King餐馆旗下的著名Wolseley欧式餐馆业主经营。内部灵感取材于其所在的建筑体及周边环境，栩栩再现战前梅菲尔的优雅魅力和个性化待客之道，还原了独特丰富的当代美学。
酒店里，不时可见各色不同时期的古董物件四下布列，包括游戏机书柜牌桌吊灯台灯和艺术品。从20世纪初到20世纪50年代中期跨度半个世纪的独创艺术海报和照片等藏品量洋洋大观。大部分的独有古老家具物件和艺术品是业主杰里米金在Lauren Gurvich Vintage的赞助下，遍寻四方所获。
安东尼戈姆雷创作的ROOM雕塑三层楼高，是一套套房的卧室，空间诱人而神秘，能启发艺术家“雕刻黑暗”，并撩拨得众人心潮澎湃，意欲逃离喧嚣外界，来到这里独自静思冥想。ROOM既是以艺术家身躯为摹本构思的大型长方体雕塑，亦是酒店本身建筑的延伸。登完九级白色大理石台阶，撩开黑色天鹅绒窗帘，入目的是一间白色大理石浴室，色彩和摆设都对比鲜明，出得浴室，便进入完全以黑烟橡木裹覆的ROOM内部。毗邻ROOM的起居室，配设宽广走廊和浴室，正如博蒙特其他房间一样，呈现出审慎的装饰艺术风格。
公共区域饰有复古台灯和烛台艺术品；2030年代时期的艺术几乎是公共区域的主角儿。无数只黑豹和老虎盘踞大理石或黑玛瑙基座上，威风八面，不怒自威。黑檀木法国装饰艺术书柜鸡尾酒柜和饮料车都是精致到骨子里。卧室是黑白照片的天下。床头上方，大幅全景照有着让人瞠目结舌的功效，多数重现2030年代的团体或人群景象，如美国沙滩美女高中同学聚会或体育赛事，洋溢一种别开生面的热闹滋味。
博蒙特的罗斯福总统套房可以全方位打开，将5间卧室合并一起，恢宏大气的场景，唤起人们对跨大西洋航班辉煌时代的追忆。起居室空间阔达；餐厅单独另设，可容8人落座；套房还配有厨房餐具室和客用浴室。奶油漆板实木复合地板严冬送暖的壁炉，都叫人一眼扫过去便心下暗赞。宽大的露台，俯视Brown Hart花园，自带一种睥睨之姿。套房多功能划分又超然舒适，酒店整个总统楼层可全部布置为套房，私密，安全。
美国酒吧的墙壁覆满300多幅知名人士黑白照，他们就职各行各业，如戏剧文学电影音乐设计体育及媒体政治商贸；也有臭名昭著的人物混迹其间。20年代中期到50年代中期，这些嬉皮雅士频频到此，体味杯酒人生。
The Beaumont Hotel London
Resurrection Of Prewar Mayfair’s Art Deco
The Beaumont, Jeremy King and Chris Corbin’s first hotel, occupies a GradeII Listed building by famed 20s architects Wimperis & Simpson. It is located in the heart of London’s Mayfair. The interiors of the hotel, inspired by the building and its surroundings, encapsulate the elegance, glamour and personalised hospitality of prewar Mayfair, evoking in detail the uniquely rich aesthetics of the time.
There are many antique and vintage pieces sourced over a period of a few years scattered throughout the hotel, including consoles, credenzas, card tables, pendant lights, table lamps and objets d’art, as well as a huge collection of original art, posters and photographs, dating from the early 1900s to the mid 1950s. Most of the unique antique pieces of furniture and works of art were sourced by owner Jeremy King, supported by Lauren Gurvich Vintage.
Antony Gormley’s ROOM forms the bedroom of a single suite. An alluring, mysterious space, its creation allowed the artist to‘sculpt darkness’, encouraging its guests to enjoy a meditative moment of withdrawal from the busy world outside. Gormley’s ROOM is both a monumental cuboid sculpture based on the artist’s body and an architectural extension to the hotel. The interior, entirely clad in dark fumed oak, is approached by nine white marble steps through a black velvet curtain from a strongly contrasting white marble bathroom. Adjacent to ROOM is a sitting room with large hallway and bathroom, decorated, like all the rooms in The Beaumont, in a discreet Art Deco style.
The public areas are adorned with vintage lamps and sconces, objets d’art, and art from the 1920s and 1930s predominantly. There are numerous panthers and tigers in bronze on marble or onyx bases; French Art Deco credenzas in Macassar ebony; cocktail cabinets and drinks carts. The bedrooms feature black & white photographs, with notable large panoramas above the beds, mostly depicting group and crowd scenes from the 20s and 30s, whether of American beach belles, High School reunions or sporting events.
The Beaumont’s presidential suite, which can be opened up to incorporate five bedrooms, evokes the glamorous era of the great Transatlantic liners. With an expansive sitting room and a separate dining room seating eight, plus a pantry kitchen and guest bathroom, it features cream lacquer panelling, parquet flooring, a working fireplace and a large terrace overlooking Brown Hart Gardens. Hugely versatile and supremely comfortable, the suite can also be arranged to incorporate the entire presidential floor of the hotel, in total privacy and security.
The walls of the American Bar are entirely covered by over 300 black & white photographs of prominent public figures from the fields of the theatre, literature, cinema, music, design, sports, as well as the media, politics, business and commerce, and notorious society figures, who all might have frequented the establishment from the midTwenties to the midFifties.
