Number 45 Park Lane is a luxurious and refined hotel with an interesting and laudable focus on art. It has a collection of Damien Hirsts and other contemporary artists, it commissions original work and organises art trips for its more cultured guests.
All of which is perfectly lovely. But the management may have bitten off more than they can chew with its latest exciting idea — to temporarily recreate the late lamented Colony Room Club within the hotel, with a functioning bar and art works by some of the habitues. Though I don’t believe it includes the most famous of them, Francis Bacon, who hardly went anywhere else.
