Category: Architecture

With all the fuss over the Midland Hotel, it’s easy to forget that there are other stylish retreats in the UK – like St Moritz hotel in Cornwall.

This art deco-styled hotel was originally a luxurious private house, but after the war it became a luxury hotel noted for its high-end food. he latest re-incarnation offers much the same, but beneath that deco-esque facade is a more modern holiday experience, with modern rooms packing flat-screen TVs, iPod docks, hair straighteners and plenty of other luxuries.

There’s also a choice of hotel room or apartment, a leisure club, spa and p,enty of great scenery all around. Prices start at £95 out of season for a room.

FInd out more at the St Moritz website

A fascinating house, but we really don’t know a great deal about the background for La Maison Bulle.

What we do know is that this space age bubble-shaped house is located in Gard in the South of France and is available to rent. For your weekly rental fee, you’ll get this self catering accommodation for up to six people, a living room with TV, a kitchen equipped with a fridge, gas cooker, washing machine and dishwasher plus a bathroom.

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This weekend sees the grand re-opening of one of the most impressive art deco buildings in Britain – the Midland Hotel in Morecambe.

Back in the 1930s, when Morecambe was one of our thriving seaside resorts, it was the place to be seen – the likes of Coco Chanel, Mrs Simpson and Noel Coward were some of well-heeled visitors seen in the lobby. But times changed and the hotel declined in tandem with the resort – leaving a derelict ruin on the front for many years.

That was until Urban Splash got its hands on it. The hotel was resurrected, with the facade and key architectural features given an overhaul, while the interior was developed to the kind of standard you would expect from a high-end hotel, with a cocktail bar, upmarket eaterie and penthouse suites thrown in for good measure.

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