Why you should experience At Sloane in London, England.
At Sloane is an artistic boutique hotel where Chelsea's Arts and Crafts inheritance, Victorian connoisseurship, Anglo-Asian aesthetics and Parisian hospitality culture converge within an 1889 townhouse overlooking Sloane Gardens.
Set along Sloane Gardens near Holbein Place and just steps from Sloane Square, the building was designed by Edwin Thomas Hall, the architect later responsible for Liberty's Tudor Revival department store, and began life as an apartment house within the Cadogan Estate. François-Joseph Graf's six-year reconstruction preserved Hall's exterior while adding a sixth floor and cupola, then translated Chelsea's design history through William Morris wallpaper, W.A.S. Benson lighting, Edward William Godwin-inspired furniture, Japonisme, neo-Greek ornament and references to Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Jean-Louis Costes brought the Parisian hotelier's sensibility to the project, joining Graf and the 300-year-old Cadogan Estate in a collaboration that deliberately fused French hospitality with late Victorian British decorative culture. The result is a hotel where Edwin Thomas Hall, François-Joseph Graf, Jean-Louis Costes and William Morris turn Chelsea's design lineage into a highly authored contemporary house.
What you should know about At Sloane.
At Sloane is best known for opening in September 2023 after six years of restoration as a 30-room collaboration between the Cadogan Estate, French hotelier Jean-Louis Costes and architect and designer François-Joseph Graf, whose intervention completely reconstructed the interior while retaining Edwin Thomas Hall's Victorian façade and adding a sixth floor crowned by a cupola. Graf commissioned an exceptional decorative program encompassing more than 700 original or reproduced W.A.S. Benson lamps, 21 bespoke carpet designs, 19 curtain designs and 50 custom fabrics, alongside William Morris patterns, restored antique furniture and pieces informed by Edward William Godwin and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The top-floor restaurant draws directly from the Peacock Room created by Thomas Jeckyll and James McNeill Whistler for shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland's Kensington home, translating its Anglo-Asian style through stained glass, latticed shelving, antique mirrors and displays of Chinese ceramics. The MICHELIN Guide awarded At Sloane One MICHELIN Key, recognizing a property whose 30 individually composed rooms emerged from one of Chelsea's most concentrated contemporary exercises in architectural and decorative authorship.
François-Joseph Graf deepened the house through artisans and manufacturers capable of translating his historical references into bespoke contemporary objects, with Le Manach and Pierre Frey among the textile names connected with the interior program. The restaurant carries Jean-Louis Costes's Parisia character into London through French cooking and established Costes dishes including spicy lobster pasta and paillard de poulet, while the room's architectural genealogy reaches Thomas Jeckyll, James McNeill Whistler and Frederick Richards Leyland. Graf's broader scheme moves between neo-Greek friezes, Japonisme, Arts and Crafts references and Anglo-Asian furniture, with original antiques restored and other pieces recreated specifically for the property. Together, Jean-Louis Costes, François-Joseph Graf, Thomas Jeckyll, James McNeill Whistler, William Morris and W.A.S. Benson give At Sloane a creative genealogy unusually dense for a hotel of only 30 rooms.
How to fold At Sloane into your trip.
At Sloane works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing contemporary collecting, botanical scholarship and Chelsea's centuries-old culture of patronage.
Begin at Saatchi Gallery, where Charles Saatchi's exhibition program began in 1985 and developed a reputation for introducing emerging artists who subsequently achieved international recognition before the organization became a registered charity in 2019. Continue to Chelsea Physic Garden, founded by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1673, where Sir Hans Sloane secured the garden's future through his 1722 agreement with the Apothecaries, Philip Miller directed it for 50 years and an international seed-exchange program established in 1682 continues into the present. Conclude at Royal Hospital Chelsea, moving from Chelsea's traditions of collecting and botanical inquiry into the architectural and military culture that has shaped another enduring institution within the district. The progression moves from Charles Saatchi's contemporary-art platform through Sir Hans Sloane and Philip Miller's botanical world into Chelsea's deeper institutional history, surrounding At Sloane with the collecting, craftsmanship and intellectual curiosity echoed throughout François-Joseph Graf's interiors.
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