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From Travel + Leisure , DEC 2004

The latest London hotel to go contemporary is the Cadogan, which used to be as English as baked beans on toast but is now trying to be both English and trendy. Calling the shots is a new management and design company, headed by Grace Leo-Andrieu, whom you probably already know from the Hôtel Montalembert and the Lancaster in Paris. Only the public areas and 25 of the Cadogan's guest rooms have been redone to date. But if the response to...MORE>>

– Christopher Petkanas The New Old Guard

From Travel + Leisure , JUL 2004

Oscar Wilde was arrested here for 'indecent acts'; Edward VII's mistress Lillie Langtry hosted a fast crowd in these halls in the 1890's. Even so, the Cadogan hotel in Knightsbridge suffered for a century into stuffy respectability. That is, until the arrival of design doyenne Grace Léo-Andrieu, whose Montalembert in Paris helped usher in an age of hotels as style statements. Léo-Andrieu has once again made the Cadogan the talk of the town by transforming the past-its-prime 1887 landmark into...MORE>>

– T+L Reports: London's Grace Period

Last updated December 2004