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A Farley Country Attire

 

The Story of A.Farley Country Attire

Established in 1968 when Major William Farley opened the original Farley Menswear store in Tavistock, Devon, A Farley Country Attire draws on a proud Farley family heritage in clothing retail.

Today we are an independent family business specialising in premium country clothing and footwear from leading brands including Barbour, Le Chameau, Ariat, Dubarry, Härkila, RM Williams and more. Based in Leicestershire, the heart of rural England, we pride ourselves on exemplary levels of customer service coupled with an in-depth knowledge of country clothing.

A.Farley Country Attire Timeline

2026: We expanded into the world of premium golf with the launch of our dedicated Vessel Golf showroom in Kibworth. Alongside one of the UK’s largest selections of Vessel golf bags, we also introduced a curated range of premium golf apparel and equipment from brands including J.Lindeberg, Peter Millar, G/FORE, FootJoy and Titleist.

2024: We introduced YETI to our range, bringing the iconic brand’s premium coolers, drinkware and outdoor gear to A Farley Country Attire both in-store and online.

2023: A Farley Country Attire continued its growth as one of the UK’s leading independent retailers of premium country clothing and footwear, with ongoing investment in our e-commerce operations and customer service team at our Kibworth headquarters.

2021: Our e-commerce team moved into a new larger office and warehouse in Kibworth to accommodate the growing customer service team and we recently celebrated together at our annual Christmas party. We think everyone scrubbed up really well....!

2018: In September we opened our fabulous new country clothing store in Kibworth, Leicestershire. Fully stocked with your favourite country brands we are perfectly located on the A6 with our own, large, free car park, call in and see for yourself…

2014: The business evolved towards a stronger focus on premium country clothing and footwear, with the addition of leading brands including Barbour, Le Chameau, Ariat and Dubarry, laying the foundations for what would become A Farley Country Attire.

2012: Adam Farley and Michael Walter launched the online store www.afarley.co.uk, marking the beginning of A Farley Country Attire’s growing e-commerce business from its headquarters in Kibworth, Leicestershire.

2003: Major William Farley’s grandson Adam followed in his footsteps, opening his own menswear store in Leicestershire, stocking leading brands such as Meyer, RM Williams, Magee, and Barker Shoes.

1968: Our story began when Major William Farley opened the original store Farley Menswear in Devon…

  

Today

Today, A Farley Country Attire is proud to be one of the UK’s leading independent retailers of premium country clothing and footwear.

From our headquarters in Kibworth, Leicestershire, we serve customers both in-store and online at afarley.co.uk, offering carefully selected brands including Ariat, RM Williams, Le Chameau, Dubarry, Härkila and Barbour.

In recent years we have also expanded into premium outdoor and golf categories, introducing YETI products and launching our dedicated Vessel Golf showroom, featuring brands such as J.Lindeberg, Peter Millar, G/FORE, FootJoy and Titleist.

More than 55 years after Major William Farley opened the original store in Tavistock, Devon, the business remains proudly independent and family run.

Farlows of Pall Mall

 

Farlows of Pall Mall is an iconic London outdoor pursuits retail flagship store specializing in high-end fly fishing gear, shooting equipment, and luxury British country clothing. Founded in 1840 by brothers Charles and John King Farlow, it remains one of the world's oldest and most prestigious names in field sports.

Store Overview

The flagship storefront spans over 6,500 square feet across two floors of a grand, majestic listed building. Located in the heart of St. James's, it is recognized globally for providing elite gear paired with expert, encyclopedic advice from passionate field staff.

Department Offerings

• Fly Fishing: Premium fly rods, reels, lines, and custom fly-tying materials. They stock their own custom tackle alongside global heritage brands like Hardy.
• Shooting & Fieldwear: Technical British shooting tweeds spun exclusively in Hawick, Scotland. They carry premium outdoor protection built for classic estate sports.
• Country Clothing: Tailored seasonal attire for both men and women. They host a specialized boot room featuring high-end brands like Dubarry, Tricker's, and Meindl.

Location & Visitor Details

• Address: 9 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5NP, United Kingdom
• Transit: Situated centrally in St. James's, approximately a two-minute walk from Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly.
• Opening Hours: Monday to Friday from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and Saturdays from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (Closed Sundays)

 

The Ritz: A Century of Wealth, Privilege, and Perfection | Up Close

 

César Ritz's 1898 sacking from The Savoy for embezzlement and fraud spurred him to launch his own luxury hotel brand, immediately transforming his reputation into the "King of Hoteliers." Backed by his elite clientele, he opened the Ritz Paris in 1898 and the Carlton Hotel in London, setting new standards for luxury, personal service, and modern amenities like en-suite bathrooms.

 

The Sacking and Its Aftermath

• The Scandal: In March 1898, Richard D'Oyly Carte dismissed César Ritz (manager), Auguste Escoffier (chef), and their associates from the Savoy for stealing over £3,400 in wine, spirits, and accepting supplier kickbacks, totaling roughly £19,137, or over £2 million in modern value.
• The Reaction: Rather than retiring in disgrace, Ritz, supported by patrons such as Lady de Grey who stated "Where Ritz goes, I go," seized the opportunity to create his own brand, fulfilling a long-held ambition to serve his clientele directly.

Creation of the Ritz Hotels

• Ritz Paris (1898): Ritz purchased a building on Place Vendôme in Paris, opening the Hôtel Ritz Paris in June 1898. It was designed to provide ultimate, intimate luxury with ensuite bathrooms, exceptional lighting, and immense focus on hygiene and comfort.
• Carlton Hotel & The Ritz London (1899/1906): Following the Paris success, Ritz opened the Carlton Hotel in London in 1899 to directly compete with the Savoy. In 1906, he opened the legendary Ritz London, fully cementing the "ritzy" brand of luxury.
• Partnering with Escoffier: The pair leveraged their elite reputation to attract their former Savoy clientele to their new establishments, solidifying the formula for modern hotel luxury.

 

Pamela Hicks, Lady-in-Waiting to Elizabeth II of Britain, Dies at 97

 

Pamela Hicks, Lady-in-Waiting to Elizabeth II of Britain, Dies at 97

 

The queen’s third cousin, she was a bridesmaid at the royal wedding in 1947, and witnessed firsthand pivotal moments in British history.

 

By Alan Cowell

June 5, 2026, 5:57 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/world/europe/pamela-hicks-dead.html

 

Pamela Hicks, a cousin, bridesmaid and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II of Britain who witnessed the birth of an independent India as the daughter of the last imperial viceroy and who was one of the very few aides on hand in a remote corner of Africa when Elizabeth learned that her father’s death had lofted her to the throne, died on Friday. She was 97.

 

Her daughter India Hicks announced the death on social media, but did not say where she died.

 

From the moment of her birth in a suite at the Ritz Hotel in Barcelona — with King Alfonso XIII of Spain personally supervising the appointment of a physician — to her attendance at Elizabeth’s funeral in 2022, Ms. Hicks led a life that was intertwined with Europe’s royal houses.

 

She was a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and a first cousin to Prince Philip, Elizabeth’s husband. Her father, Lord Louis Mountbatten, was descended from the Battenberg dynasty of Germany and was often said to be a mentor to King Charles III when he was the heir to the throne. She and her elder sister, Patricia, were third cousins to Elizabeth and were bridesmaids at the royal wedding in 1947.

 

Ms. Hicks’s life was punctuated by tragedy — her father was among those killed in a 1979 bomb attack on the family fishing boat, orchestrated by members of the Irish Republican Army — and by what modern critics might depict as scandal. Her mother, Edwina Ashley, an heiress of great wealth and beauty, was known for taking lovers, one of whom moved in with the family, apparently with her husband’s consent.

 

When the Mountbattens moved to New Delhi in 1947, as Britain prepared to relinquish the so-called “jewel in the crown” of its empire, her mother was said to have forged a deep and mutual attachment with Jawaharlal Nehru, an Indian nationalist leader who became the country’s first prime minister. (Ms. Hicks always denied biographers’ suggestions that the relationship had been sexual.)

 

For his part, Lord Mountbatten had a longstanding and intimate relationship with Yola Letellier, a Frenchwoman on whom the writer Colette had based the title character of her 1944 novella “Gigi.”

 

Ms. Hicks’s own marriage to a commoner in 1960 took her into a different world of the international jet-set as the wife of David Hicks, a well-known designer of chic interiors in the 1960s. When her husband’s business began to falter in the late 1970s, the couple sold Britwell House, their home in Oxfordshire, and moved into the Grove, a smaller but still grand home on the same estate.

 

The wedding was “an unorthodox match, but one that would change my life completely,” Ms. Hicks wrote in a 2012 memoir, “Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten.”

 

“After 29 years as the dutiful daughter of a family at the heart of British society, with all its traditions and ceremonies,” she added, “I was about to enter a completely new world — of fashion, design and the whirlwind of the 1960s.”

 

Mr. Hicks died in 1998. In addition to their daughter India, Ms. Hicks’s survivors include another daughter, Edwina Hicks; a son, Ashley Hicks; and 12 grandchildren.

 

Pamela Carmen Louise Mountbatten was born in Barcelona on April 19, 1929, while her parents were traveling in Spain. As his wife went into labor, Lord Mountbatten called a cousin, Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, to seek help finding a doctor. King Alfonso ended up making the arrangements for a qualified physician to attend the birth. He also ordered the Royal Guard to surround the Ritz, Ms. Hicks wrote in her memoir.

 

She was five years younger than Patricia, her only sibling, with whom she spent much of a peripatetic childhood while their parents traveled widely. Their mother undertook lengthy and exotic journeys with a favored lover, Lt. Col. Harold Phillips, a 6-foot-5 officer in the Coldstream Guards known as Bunny, who moved in with the family.

 

“It was a very unconventional marriage, but brought about by love, really,” Ms. Hicks told Vanity Fair in 2013. “My father adored my mother and wanted her to be happy. So it was his idea to bring Bunny, whom we adored, into the family. And he had Yola. So it was an extended family intimacy, but it worked very well indeed.”

 

The sisters were brought up largely by nannies and governesses, at one point spending months away from their parents at a hotel in rural Hungary after her mother lost the establishment’s address. On other occasions, her mother sent back unusual pets, including a lion cub and a bear, which inevitably grew to be threateningly large.

 

At home, their parents’ guests included Queen Mary, Noël Coward, Winston Churchill and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. At one point, King Edward VIII spent time at the Mountbatten home in England with Wallis Simpson, the American for whom he gave up the throne in 1936.

 

In later life, Ms. Hicks was scathing about Mrs. Simpson. In the interview with Vanity Fair, she called her “hardhearted” and accused her of devoting herself to a wealthy American playboy, to the chagrin of the former king. In the same interview, Ms. Hicks had sharp words, too, for Princess Diana, calling her “really spiteful, really unkind” to Charles before her death in 1997.

 

During World War II, the sisters were evacuated briefly to New York because of fears that, if Germany invaded, the Mountbatten family could be at risk — because of its aristocratic pedigree and because the two girls and their mother traced Jewish ancestry to their great-grandfather, Ernest Cassel, a wealthy financier.

 

In New York, they were housed on Fifth Avenue, near St. Patrick’s Cathedral, in the vast apartment of the socialite Grace Vanderbilt.

 

For the teenage Pamela, the family’s postwar deployment to India to oversee independence and the subsequent partition appears to have offered a remarkable and exhilarating time. She befriended Nehru and Gandhi, and was charged by her parents with placating Indian student leaders who had been jailed by the same British authorities that were now preparing to withdraw.

 

From the abdication of Edward VIII, Ms. Hicks had known that her cousin Elizabeth was in the direct line of succession. Yet, she later wrote, it came as a surprise when King George VI died in 1952, at 56, while Elizabeth and Philip were on tour in Kenya.

 

As lady-in-waiting, Ms. Hicks was one of only a handful of close aides who traveled with the couple to Treetops, a remote game-viewing lodge built on a platform high up in an ancient fig tree overlooking a watering hole.

 

In the era before cellphones and satellite communications, the small group was completely out of touch. Not only that, urgent encrypted messages about the king’s death, sent to the British colonial authorities in Kenya, could not be deciphered because the official in charge of the code book was traveling to meet the royal couple later in the tour.

 

Only when the party moved on to the next scheduled stop on their journey after Treetops did royal aides confirm from a crackly BBC radio broadcast that the king had died. In British monarchic tradition, an heir assumes the throne the very second the previous queen or king dies.

 

After Philip broke the news to Elizabeth, Ms. Hicks wrote, “I instinctively gave her a hug but quickly, remembering that she was now queen, dropped into a deep curtsy.”

 

Alan Cowell had a long career as a foreign correspondent for The Times based in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

Cable Car Clothiers San Francisco

 

We have long been recognized as the destination for men who seek fine clothing and accessories, crafted with care and good taste, and made of the finest quality.

Family Owned & Operated for Over 75 Years

https://cablecarclothiers.com/history/

 

Cable Car Clothiers, named after the cable car line on Powell and O’Farrell Streets, was founded in 1946 in San Francisco by Charlie Pivnick as a war surplus store called Vet’s Mercantile. In 1954, as military surplus sources dried up and the store began to focus more on traditional, British-style clothing, it was renamed Cable Car Clothiers.

 

After 1970, Cable Car Clothiers became known for its quarterly mail order catalog, which eventually reached a circulation of 2 million and helped to make the store a tourist destination.

 

In 1972, Pivnick purchased and incorporated Robert Kirk, a San Francisco retailer founded in 1939 and also known for a focus on traditional, British-style clothing, thus allowing itself the motto “San Francisco’s British Goods Store Since 1939.” The flagship store was established at 150 Post Street and thrived in conjunction with a booming catalog and mail order business.

 

In the early 1980s, Cable Car Clothiers was located mid-block on Sutter Street, in the Union Square area. Looking to expand its men’s and women’s departments, the company moved to what is presently the Emporio Armani building, a wonderful Greek Revival banking temple, located at One Grant Avenue.

 

After two smaller shop locations in the Financial District, the company moved to their location at 200 Bush Street, on the prominent corner of Sansome Street.

 

Finally, in late 2012, Cable Car Clothiers moved back to its roots on Sutter Street and opened an in-house 1930s-style Barber Shop to complement its selection of fine men’s clothing, hats and caps, and other men’s accessories, grooming and lifestyle products.

About Us

Cable Car Clothiers is the oldest men’s retailer in San Francisco, but its classic style and determination to help gentlemen stay fashionable has allowed it to remain a San Francisco institution for generations.

The Total Fashion Experience

Clothing

Cable Car Clothiers specializes in the total fashion experience for the gentleman, carrying everything in a man’s wardrobe – clothing, slippers, accessories, hats and caps, and other lifestyle products. We sell both traditional brands rich in British history and modern, fashion forward brands. Our hats and caps department has hundreds of hats, including hats exclusively handmade for Cable Car Clothiers.

 

Apothecary

Our apothecary is stocked with all the essentials a man needs to stay fresh and well groomed. We sell fragrances, grooming tools, shaving, hair and body care products.

 

Barber Shop

We have a 1930s-style, in-store barbershop, offering a truly unique experience in shaving and barber services. Our shop is a veritable museum of vintage barber tools, chairs, and hair tonics. The grooming experience takes you back in time to a more stylish and genteel era.

 

Cable Car Clothiers is San Francisco’s oldest men’s clothing retailer and a celebrated city institution, famous for specializing in traditional, high-end British-style menswear and Ivy League style.

Overview & History

• Establishment: Founded in 1946 by Charlie Pivnick, it originally began as a war surplus store called Vet's Mercantile.
• Evolution: By the 1950s, it pivoted to traditional menswear. In 1972, the business acquired Robert Kirk Ltd., absorbing its heritage and adopting the famous motto: "San Francisco's British Goods Store Since 1939."
• The Catalog Era: Starting in 1970, it pioneered a massive quarterly mail-order catalog business that reached over 2 million households nationwide, turning the store into a prime tourist destination. It was even featured as a premier shopping location in The Official Preppy Handbook (1980).

Offering & Aesthetic

The store operates like a classic, exclusive English gentleman’s club. It focuses on premium, timeless fashion rather than modern fast-fashion trends:

• Clothing: Known for natural-shoulder suits, Oxford dress shirts, luxury trousers, and sports coats.
• Hats: Features a massive selection of hats, including Borsalino fedoras, Panama hats, newsboy caps, and classic British headwear.
• Heritage Brands: Stocks reputable global brands such as Barbour, Baracuta, Gloverall, Gitman Bros., and Jamieson's of Shetland.
• In-House Barbershop: Features an authentic, 1930s-style barbershop where clients can get classic haircuts and straight-razor shaves by appointment.

Store Details

The shop is currently located inside the historic French-American Bank Building in San Francisco's Financial District.

• Address: 110 Sutter Street, Suite 108, San Francisco, CA 94104
• Phone: (415) 397-4740
• Official Website: Cable Car Clothiers Official Site
• Hours: Monday through Saturday from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Closed Sundays). Note: Shopping and barbershop services may require an appointment.

Are you looking to buy a specific item online, or are you planning a visit to the physical store in San Francisco? Let me know if you need help with product availability or booking a barber appointment.

 

By Matthew Longcore, Ph.D.

 

May14, 2026

https://cablecarclothiers.com/30760-2/

 

Cable Car Clothiers in San Francisco was founded in 1946. The store is an Ivy Style and Anglophile haberdashery, focused on traditional, British-style clothing.

 

After 1970, Cable Car Clothiers became known for its quarterly mail order catalog, which eventually reached a circulation of 2 million and helped to make the store a tourist destination. The store was mentioned in The Official Preppy Handbook, published in 1980.

 

The store’s motto is “San Francisco’s British Goods Store Since 1939.” In 2012, Cable Car Clothiers moved back to its roots on Sutter Street and opened an in-house 1930s-style Barber Shop to complement its selection of fine men’s clothing, hats and caps, and other men’s accessories, grooming and lifestyle products.

 

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Inside The London Hotel For The Super Rich | Inside Claridges | Up Close

Claridge's is a 5-star hotel at the corner of Brook Street and Davies Street in Mayfair, London. The hotel is owned and managed by the Maybourne Hotel Group.

 

History

Founding

Claridge's traces its origins to Mivart's Hotel, which was founded in 1812 in a conventional London terraced house and grew by expanding into neighbouring houses. In 1854, the founder (the father of biologist St. George Jackson Mivart) sold the hotel to William and Marianne Claridge, who owned a smaller hotel next door. They combined the two operations, and after trading for a time as "Mivart's late Claridge's", they settled on the current name.

 

The reputation of the hotel was confirmed in 1860, when Empress Eugenie made an extended visit and entertained Queen Victoria at the hotel. In its first edition of 1878, Baedeker's London listed Claridge's as "The first hotel in London".

 

Acquisitions

Richard D'Oyly Carte, the theatrical impresario and founder of the rival Savoy Hotel, purchased Claridge's in 1893, as part of The Savoy Group, and shortly afterwards demolished the old buildings and replaced them with the present ones. This was prompted by the need to install modern facilities such as lifts and en suite bathrooms. From 1894 to 1901, Édouard Nignon was the hotel chef.

 

19th and 20th centuries

The new Claridge's, built by George Trollope & Sons, opened in 1898.[3] It is a Grade II listed building. The hotel has 203 rooms and suites and around 400 staff.

 

After the First World War, Claridge's flourished due to demand from aristocrats who no longer maintained a London house, and under the leadership of Carte's son, Rupert D'Oyly Carte, an extension was built in the 1920s. During the Second World War, it was the base of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia's government in exile and home of Peter II of Yugoslavia.

 

In 1996, the foyer was restored by architect Thierry Despont.

 

In 1998, the group of hotels—along with the later-added Connaught—was sold for $867 million to two American private-equity funds, Blackstone and Colony Capital.

 

21st century renovation and relaunch

In 2005, the private-equity owners sold The Savoy Group, including Claridge's, to a group of Irish investors led by Derek Quinlan. The investors later sold the Savoy Hotel and Savoy Theatre and renamed the group Maybourne Hotel Group.The Maybourne Hotel Group includes two other five-star hotels in London, The Berkeley and The Connaught.

 

Between 2016 and 2021, the hotel was renovated and expanded as part of a "relaunch" by co-owner Paddy McKillen. The top two floors were replaced by a four-storey, 14-bedroom extension that included a penthouse with swimming pool, gym, private lake, and 1,800 sq ft (170 m2) grand salon. A 22 m-deep (72 ft) excavation was dug beneath the Art Deco 1920s extension to create a five-level basement. Construction work was largely done by hand to avoid disturbing guests, and the hotel continued in operation throughout the building work. The project was recorded in a BBC documentary series, The Mayfair Hotel Megabuild.

 

Notable guests

Actors, directors, and entertainers who have used Claridge's include Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, regular visitor Alfred Hitchcock, Brad Pitt, Joan Collins, Mick Jagger, U2 and Whitney Houston.[citation needed] In his memoir The Moon's a Balloon, David Niven wrote that for film producer Alexander Korda, "Home was the penthouse at Claridge's". The hotel lobby and several guestrooms appear in Stephen Poliakoff's 2001 BBC television drama Perfect Strangers. Claridge's has hosted visiting royalty and guests of the Royal Family. The late King Hassan of Morocco travelled with his own mattress, but at the hotel he used a Savoy Mattress. Impressed by the quality, he ordered 24 identical mattresses from the Savoy for his palace.

 

King Peter II of Yugoslavia and his wife, Queen Alexandra, spent much of the Second World War in exile at Claridge's, and suite 212 was supposedly ceded by the United Kingdom to Yugoslavia for a single day (17 July 1945) to allow their heir, Crown Prince Alexander, to be born on Yugoslav soil, although no documentary evidence now exists to support the story.

 

At the end of the Second World War, when unexpectedly defeated in the general election of 1945, Winston Churchill was temporarily without a London home and took a suite at Claridge's.

 

In December 1951, West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer secretly met World Jewish Congress president Nahum Goldmann at Claridge's to begin negotiations on German reparations to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.

 

Restaurants and other facilities

Claridge's has been described as London's most "food centric hotel".It offers afternoon tea in The Foyer and Reading Room. There are three public ground floor bars; Claridge’s Bar acts as the main bar, when not being used for afternoon tea; The Fumoir, a former cigar bar until the smoking ban prohibited indoor smoking in 2007; and the Painter's Room, opened in 2021. A cafe at the back of the hotel opened in 2023 called The ArtSpace Café which has an extensive gallery space beneath it.

 

Davies and Brook, with head chef Daniel Humm, closed in 2021 after Humm proposed a vegan-only menu  similar to that of Eleven Madison Park, his three-star Michelin restaurant in New York. The hotel received criticism for "not moving with the times". In 2023, the hotel opened Claridge's Restaurant  in the same space.

 

For 12 years, the fine dining main restaurant was run by Gordon Ramsay, with various head chefs including Steve Allen and Mark Sargeant. Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's lost its Michelin status in January 2010. The restaurant closed in 2013 after having "lost its way". Harden's guide rated the restaurant second in London for "most disappointing cooking" and fourth for "most overpriced restaurant" in 2010.

 

Claridge's later replaced Ramsay's restaurant with Fera, meaning 'Wild' in Latin, run by chef Simon Rogan. Fera was awarded a Michelin star in 2015 and Rogan left the restaurant in May 2017, leaving the restaurant's head chef Matt Starling in charge. Following Rogan's departure, the restaurant closed in December 2018.

 

For 10 days in 2012, the hotel hosted the restaurant Noma, while the restaurant in Copenhagen was closed for refurbishment. Owner René Redzepi and his head chef and staff from Noma served a £195-per-head nine-course New Nordic Cuisine menu that included scones and clotted cream, Lancashire hotpot with British ingredients, and live ants foraged in Denmark and flown to London.

 

In 2021, Claridge's opened an art deco bar in the Painter's Room featuring art work by Annie Morris.

 

Artistic installations

Claridge's built an art gallery and started an artist in residence programme; illustrator David Downton became the first artist in residence in 2011.Downton created the Talking Heads Gallery, which displayed sketches from guests including Kristin Scott Thomas, Sarah Jessica Parker and Thandiwe Newton.

 

The hotel hired artist Damien Hirst, and over 200 of his prints were installed in guest rooms. During the Frieze Art Fair in 2019, Hirst's sculptures were displayed in the lobby. In 2021, a skylight designed by Hirst featuring butterflies was installed, and Claridge's Art Space opened and included an exhibition by Hirst and others. Since 2023, Claridge's rooftop penthouse suite has been housing 75 works by Hirst.

 

The Christmas tree in the lobby is designed annually by artists, designers or fashion houses; these have included Diane von Furstenberg, Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Louboutin, Jimmy Choo, Burberry and Dolce & Gabbana.In 2015, Christopher Bailey decorated the tree with around 100 umbrellas, and 77,000 lights triggered by passersby.