\u201cThis is insane,\u201d a woman says as a butler takes her on a tour of The Chancery Rosewood\u2019s spa.<\/p>\n
We are in the basement levels of what used to be the US embassy in London. Now, there are state-of-the-art hydrotherapy pools and a cold-plunge tank, along with a sauna and steam room. I am stretched like a cat on a heated marble lounger that is far more comfortable than any angular stone slab has the right to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is kind of insane,\u201d I think, as a member of staff uses an instant-read thermometer to check that the pool water has not cooled.<\/p>\n
The Chancery started to take shape even before US diplomats moved their British headquarters from Mayfair\u2019s Grosvenor Square to Nine Elms, near Battersea, in 2018.<\/p>\n
The hotel now occupies the mid-century modern building designed by Eero Saarinen. A giant gilded eagle, once perched over the building\u2019s edge, now crowns the rooftop bar, a spot that has already established itself as London\u2019s poshest after-work hang-out. The hotel has been accepting guests since early September, and its grand opening was October 14.<\/p>\n
The renovation, by David Chipperfield Architects, was extensive but faithful to Saarinen\u2019s original designs. Ground-floor office walls were taken down, opening the space into a grand lobby and expanding its diagrid ceiling. The windows and Portland stone facade got a careful restoration, but everything on the upper floors was removed and turned into 144 rooms \u2013 all suites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is insane,\u201d a woman says as a butler takes her on a tour of The Chancery Rosewood\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,176245,176242,176244,120341,100754,393,4884,143845,257,354,78656,20859,151600,139038,176243,16,15],"class_list":["post-549466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-carbone","tag-chancery-rosewood","tag-chancery-rosewood-hotel","tag-claridges","tag-eero-saarinen","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-grosvenor-square","tag-london","tag-mayfair","tag-nine-elms","tag-peninsula","tag-rosewood","tag-the-chancery-rosewood","tag-the-chancery-rosewood-hotel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115493997032165964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}