The South Place Hotel is restaurant group D&D London's first hotel. The 7000 sq m hotel features 80 rooms, three bars and two restaurants, and is housed in a seven-storey building designed by architects Allies and Morrison, and built by owner and developer Frogmore. South Place opened just off Moorgate in September 2012, bringing a thoroughly East End buzz to the City.
The hotel's interior, designed by Conran and Partners, is heavily art-focussed; hundreds of original works by London artists hang on the walls, and each room features a carefully-curated selection.
The bedrooms are decorated in muted palettes – the focus is on quality materials and intelligently-designed furniture. By contrast, the public spaces are theatrical. Le Chiffre, the games room, boasts backgammon-panelled walls, a snooker table, and a selection of spy novels. The first floor 'secret garden' bar is dwarfed by a spectacular six-storey steel installation by Grace & Webb overhead.
In 3 South Place, the ground floor restaurant and bar, the pop art creations of John Vincent Aranda are paired with concrete tables and globe terrariums, creating a space that is unashamedly cool. Angler, the seventh-floor fish restaurant, is a very different proposition: a gleaming fine dining space, with an intricate mirrored ceiling and white linen tablecloths. The contrast between the two epitomises the design concept behind South Place: a confluence of East End edge and City polish.