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London’s hottest hotel will surprise you again and again

London’s hottest hotel will surprise you again and again

Discretion is a hallmark of all-suite hotel The Emory, where you enter a world of pitch-perfect luxury through a back alley.

The Emory’s architecture brings the outside in – including views across Hyde Park.  Kensington Leverne

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There it is, on the Knightsbridge horizon, its exposed steel trusses reaching skyward from a rigorously geometric glass framework, futuristic sail-like panels suspended between them: London’s newest and most buzzed-about luxury hotel.

Such words – geometric, futuristic – are rarely deployed when it comes to five-star hostelry here in the British capital, famous for having practically invented chintz, the club chair and all manner of sumptuous, convention-embracing signifiers of hotel comfort.

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Maria ShollenbargerContributorMaria Shollenbarger is a contributing writer for the Financial Review and travel columnist for AFR Magazine.

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