Artist Residence London

Artist Residence London

On Cambridge Street in Pimlico, a five-floor Georgian townhouse holds just ten rooms, each decorated on its own terms rather than stamped from a template, with an all-day restaurant and cocktail bar running the length of the ground floor from morning through night and a terrace for guests upstairs. Artist Residence London sits about two kilometres from the centre, close enough to walk to the London Fire Brigade Museum and Victoria's travel information centre. Rooms carry bathrobes, minibars, flat-screen TVs and blackout blinds, and a few of the suites run past 460 square feet with their own dining areas. What separates this address from the area's other design hotels is the playroom, an amenity most ten-room townhouses never bother building, alongside a ping-pong table and a conference hall set up for business meetings and small events. Breakfast is charged per person rather than folded into the rate, and there's no parking on site, so anyone driving in should plan around that. This suits a couple who wants a house rather than a hotel lobby, or a family who wants character without giving up a playroom for the children. It does not suit anyone who needs a swimming pool, a full gym, or parking outside the door. What lingers after checkout is not the room but the ground floor: the bar still going, the ping-pong table still out, the sense that ten rooms can hold more personality than buildings ten times their size. A five-floor Pimlico townhouse with just ten individually decorated rooms, a playroom, ping-pong and an all-day restaurant and cocktail bar downstairs. Two kilometres from central London, with no parking on site. Suits couples and families after character over scale.