There are hotel rooms you sleep in, and hotel rooms that change the way you think about your own home. The Club Suite at Artists Residence London is firmly in the second category.
We checked in expecting a stylish night in London. We left with a notebook full of ideas and a quiet obsession with a sideboard covered in vintage biscuit tins. More on that shortly.
First Impressions at the Door
Before you even step inside, Artists Residence London signals its intentions. Flanking the entrance on either side of the door is a cluster of large wicker planters — the kind of weathered, tactile baskets that look as though they’ve always been there. Planted up with a standard olive tree, trailing salvia and lush green shrubs spilling over the sides, it’s an entrance display that feels relaxed and considered in equal measure.
It’s a reminder that great styling doesn’t stop at the front door. If you’re thinking about plants for pots at home, this kind of grouped planter arrangement — mixing heights, textures and trailing growth — is one of the most effective ways to create instant impact outside a front door or on a terrace.
Al Fresco in Pimlico
Step outside and the terrace continues the hotel’s eye for detail. The outdoor chairs are a particular joy — woven rattan bistro chairs in three colourways: green and white, navy and white, and red and white, each in a crisp chevron pattern. Stacked casually beside the pavement tables with the Georgian townhouses of Pimlico stretching into the distance behind them, they have a relaxed, almost Parisian quality.
It’s a masterclass in how garden furniture can set a mood. Mix complementary colourways rather than matching everything identically, and the result feels curated rather than catalogue-bought.
A Room With a Point of View
From the moment you walk in, it’s clear that someone made deliberate, confident choices here. The walls are a calm sage grey — grounding everything without feeling cold. The floors are dark hardwood. And rising above the bed, commanding the entire room, is a statement headboard unlike anything we’d seen before: a fan of green velvet lobes set within a walnut wooden frame, like a peacock in full display.
It shouldn’t work. It absolutely works.
Paired with warm rattan lamps on wooden bedside tables, the sleeping area feels quietly luxurious — the kind of finish that looks effortless but has clearly been thought through to the last detail. The scalloped edge lampshade echo’s the curves of the headboard. The sage throw picks up the green of the velvet. Nothing is accidental. It’s a perfect example of what a green and beige bedroom can feel like when every element is in harmony.
This is eclectic interior design at its most assured: not a chaotic mix of things you happen to like, but a considered layering of character, texture and colour that feels entirely cohesive. Eclectic style, done well, always looks intentional — and this room is proof.
The Sitting Area: A Lesson in Mixing Boldly
The Club Suite isn’t just a bedroom — it opens into a generous sitting area, and this is where things get really interesting.
A deep chocolate velvet sofa anchors the space, piled high with five clashing cushions: bold geometric prints in raspberry pink, a riot of botanical colour, narrow ikat stripes in jewel tones. They shouldn’t sit together. They do, brilliantly. It’s an eclectic mix that works precisely because the sofa itself is so grounded. If the idea of mixing bold prints appeals, our guide to orange pattern cushions is a great place to start.
Two worn leather club chairs face across an extraordinary coffee table — a reclaimed factory trolley, complete with original cast iron wheels and a thick plank top. It has the look of something rescued from an old warehouse and given an entirely new life at the centre of a stylish room. Which, we suspect, is exactly what happened.
Underfoot, a chevron rug in red, blue and cream pulls the whole sitting area together, its graphic pattern holding its own against the other bold choices in the room.
Above the sofa: a large framed print of the Queen’s Guard — witty, British, and perfectly pitched. Not kitsch. Just characterful.
The Desk: Every Detail Considered
Beside the wardrobe sits a desk — a broad, beautifully worn farmhouse table with the kind of surface that only comes from decades of genuine use. On top of it: a vintage black rotary dial telephone, a green anglepoise lamp casting warm light across the grain, a small mirror, and a patterned mug.
Above it, a bold red portrait in the style of a pop art print watches over the room with quiet authority.
But pause for a moment on the wardrobe itself. The doors are chinoiserie lattice panels — intricate geometric fretwork across the upper half, with delicate carved floral details below. Set flush into the wall of an otherwise very British room, they’re an unexpected and completely wonderful touch. This is eclectic decor at its most confident: the kind of piece that could only work if everything around it is equally sure of itself.
It’s a desk vignette that feels lived-in and personal rather than hotel-generic, and it’s a lesson in how to style a workspace at home. Choose a desk with character — a piece with history — and surround it with objects that mean something. The result is a corner of a room that feels like it belongs to someone.
The Detail That Stopped Us in Our Tracks
We’ve saved the best for last.
Against one wall sits a sideboard, and at first glance it reads as a striking piece of furniture in red and blue. Look closer, and you realise: the entire exterior is covered in vintage Crawford’s biscuit tin panels. Rover Assorted Biscuits. Family Circle. Each tin flattened and riveted to the cabinet doors, topped with an aged metal surface and set on slim black legs.
It’s upcycling as high art. A piece of British nostalgia transformed into something genuinely beautiful and completely unique. On top of it: a Grind espresso machine, a wooden tea and coffee caddy, a Roberts DAB radio in mahogany red. Every object chosen with the same eye. It also happens to make the most characterful bespoke coffee station we’ve ever seen — proof that a dedicated coffee corner doesn’t need to be built from scratch to feel considered and complete.
This is the kind of piece that reminds you what’s possible when you stop thinking about furniture as something to buy new and start thinking about what already exists — what has a story, what has texture, what has life in it.
The Bathroom: Old Meets New, Beautifully
The bathroom design at Artists Residence London deserves its own moment. In fact, it deserves a long soak in it.
A polished chrome freestanding roll-top bath sits centre stage, positioned beside the window with toiletries lined up neatly along the sill and a blue abstract artwork on the wall opposite. It’s the kind of bath that makes you want to cancel your plans.
Through the glass, a second wet room continues the story: deep blue zellige-style tiles run halfway up the walls, topped with soft grey above. A Victorian-style wall-mounted basin on chrome legs, a high-level cistern with wooden seat, paired globe wall lights, and a generous rainfall shower with polished nickel fittings — every fixture chosen with the same period-meets-contemporary eye.
It’s a bathroom that proves you don’t have to choose between character and comfort. The blue tiles in particular are something to aspire to — bold enough to make a statement, deep enough to feel luxurious, and timeless enough to never date.
Dinner, and the Best Kind of Evening
A beautiful room sets the tone, but it’s the people — both the staff and the guests — who make a stay truly memorable.
We had dinner at the restaurant that evening, reuniting with an old friend who had been travelling Europe for five weeks and was making London her final stop before heading back to Australia. The kind of catch-up that starts with “so what have you been up to” and ends with you realising it’s suddenly very late and you’ve barely noticed.
The staff made it. Warm, attentive, genuinely good fun — the kind of service that feels like hospitality rather than performance. We laughed a lot. We talked too much. We completely forgot to photograph the food.
Which, honestly, tells you everything you need to know. When a meal is good enough — and the company good enough — the camera stays in your pocket. We can’t show you what we ate, but we can tell you we’d go back for it without hesitation.
Five Things to Steal for Your Own Home
You don’t need a hotel budget to take the spirit of this room home with you. The best eclectic home decor isn’t expensive — it’s considered. Here’s what we’re taking back to our own spaces:
1. Invest in one hero piece. The fan headboard does all the heavy lifting in that bedroom. Everything else is relatively restrained. Choose one statement and let it lead.
2. Mix your cushions boldly — but anchor them with a neutral sofa. The dark velvet sofa is the reason those five wildly different cushions work together. A neutral base gives you permission to go loud everywhere else.
3. Look for furniture with a past. The leather club chairs, the factory trolley, the biscuit tin sideboard — every piece has history. This is the heart of great eclectic decor: vintage and secondhand finds add a layer of character that new furniture simply can’t replicate.
4. Let your art have a sense of humour. The Queen’s Guard print is playful without being silly. Art doesn’t always have to be serious. A piece that makes you smile every time you walk past it is worth more than something merely impressive.
5. Think in textures. Velvet, rattan, aged leather, reclaimed wood, woven cotton — this room is as much about how things feel as how they look. Layer different textures and the room gains depth without you needing to add more colour.
Visit Artists Residence London
If you’re planning a London stay and want to come home with more than a museum ticket stub, Artists Residence London is the place. The Club Suite is the one to book.
It will make you think differently about your own home. That, for us, is the highest compliment a hotel room can receive.
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