The desk is generous although the TV position is curious as if your partner wants to watch television whilst you work, as it is right above your head. Your head also comes between the channel changer making it difficult for your partner to change channels. Ah well, it makes a change from being told you would make a better door than a window…

The desk task lamp’s 100 watts can also provide a degree of warmth to the top of the head, no doubt an advantage in winter…

Perhaps the most decorative rooms are the private dining room and the boardroom where wallpapers are used, providing a welcome relief from the minimalism elsewhere, otherwise colour and texture are only provided through fabrics such as those in the restaurant or bar, and through the artwork, much of it by local artists.

Perhaps my expectations were too high when I arrived, particularly as I enjoyed both the Savoy and Browns, but I found the hotel design disappointing. The hotel looks almost as if too much respect was given to the architect, and the interiors as a result don’t appear to work as well as they do in the other hotels, lacking the colour, warmth and wit I previously associated with Olga Polizzi.