Why you should experience 1 Hotel Mayfair in London, England.
1 Hotel Mayfair is a biophilic luxury hotel where Mayfair's garden culture, contemporary craftsmanship, culinary ambition and material experimentation converge within the European debut of Barry Sternlicht's 1 Hotels.
Set along Berkeley Street near Piccadilly and just steps from Green Park, the hotel transformed the former Holiday Inn site into an eight-storey property conceived by SH Hotels & Resorts with Crosstree Real Estate Partners, introducing the 1 Hotels brand to Europe when it opened in July 2023. British materials shape the interior language through Yorkshire stone, Welsh slate and reclaimed timber, while a reception desk carved from a naturally fallen tree from Balcombe Estate and extensive planting translate the brand's nature-led philosophy into specifically British material culture. More than 1,300 individual plants extend that landscape through the property, with living walls and suspended botanical installations turning vegetation into a defining component of the architecture. The result is a hotel where Barry Sternlicht, Crosstree Real Estate Partners, Balcombe Estate and British natural materials give Mayfair's relationship with Green Park an unusually immersive hospitality expression.
What you should know about 1 Hotel Mayfair.
1 Hotel Mayfair is best known for opening on July 13, 2023 as the first European property in the 1 Hotels portfolio, introducing an 181-key hotel containing 137 rooms and 44 suites to the corner of Berkeley Street and Piccadilly. Starwood Capital Group founder Barry Sternlicht created the 1 Hotels brand, while Crosstree Real Estate Partners developed the London project and the property arrived as the portfolio expanded beyond its established American hotels in New York, Miami and Los Angeles. The eight-storey building incorporated a substantial new hospitality program overlooking Green Park, including the Green Park Penthouse, a 274-square-meter residence conceived as a garden room with panoramic park views. The hotel simultaneously created Dover Yard as a new pedestrian passage and internal social space between Berkeley Street and Dover Street, establishing a named address that became central to the property's restaurant and bar program. The July 2023 opening, Barry Sternlicht's transatlantic hotel platform, Crosstree Real Estate Partners, 181-key scale and creation of Dover Yard established 1 Hotel Mayfair as the European flagship for a hospitality concept previously concentrated in North America.
Chef Tom Sellers supplies the property's strongest culinary authorship through Dovetale, which opened on July 13, 2023 after his two-MICHELIN-starred Restaurant Story established him as one of his generation's prominent British chefs. Executive Head Chef Tom Anglesea joined Sellers in developing Dovetale, with Chase Loveky as Head Chef, Andrew Blas as Executive Pastry Chef and Oliver Espersen directing a substantial wine program spanning traditional and New World producers. Freedown Hills Farm, The Sea The Sea, Cacklebean Eggs, Bees & Co. and Estate Dairy number among the British suppliers behind a produce-led menu combining modern European cooking with Mayfair classics, extending Sellers's restaurant philosophy beyond Restaurant Story into a markedly different à la carte format. Together, Tom Sellers, Tom Anglesea, Chase Loveky, Andrew Blas, Oliver Espersen and their network of British producers give 1 Hotel Mayfair a culinary character built through named creative talent and agricultural provenance as deliberately as the hotel itself was built through material and botanical authorship.
How to fold 1 Hotel Mayfair into your trip.
1 Hotel Mayfair works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing Georgian collecting, artist-led exhibition culture and royal landscape design through Mayfair and St. James's.
Begin at Royal Academy of Arts, founded in 1768 under the patronage of George III with Sir Joshua Reynolds as its first president, before settling at Burlington House in 1867 and developing an artist-led institutional tradition whose annual Summer Exhibition has endured since 1769. Continue to Spencer House, commissioned in 1756 by John Spencer and designed first by John Vardy and subsequently James “Athenian” Stuart, whose interiors introduced some of eighteenth-century London's most sophisticated expressions of Palladian and Greek-inspired design beside Green Park. Conclude at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, created from the palace's former private chapel and developed as an exhibition setting for works from the Royal Collection, extending the progression from artist-governed exhibition culture through aristocratic patronage into centuries of royal collecting. The sequence moves from Reynolds and the Royal Academicians through Spencer, Vardy and Stuart into the British monarchy's collections, placing 1 Hotel Mayfair within the dense network of artistic patronage, design and landscape culture surrounding Green Park.
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