The Sanderson

Minimal Manhattan design chic at this fashion-first hotel
Tipple of choice: Try the Vesper at the resident’s only Purple Bar. This intimate space feels like stepping inside a bizarre fantasy world of the fashionable elite.

The bold, white minimalism of the Sanderson epitomises Philippe Starck’s monumental influence on design, and wows just as much today as it did a decade ago when it first opened in its current guise. This is clinical chic at it’s most fashionable and flamboyant.
The Sanderson was the first venture which paired boutique hotelier extraordinaire Ian Schrager with Starck, and let their playful streak run wild resulting in a lot of glass screens, red lip sofas, wave chairs and silver-leaf sleighs for bed-frames.

There are lovely touches throughout from the oil paintings on the ceiling to the pashminas draped casually across the bed. But there are downsides too including the irksome charge for wi-fi in the rooms.

In-house Suka restaurant and the Long Bar are destinations in their own right especially during fashion week, although the food is inconsistent. Nonetheless, with a location just north of Soho, this is where London’s media glitterati come out to play.