[Willow Kemp} How's this for a sense of arrival? This monumental Botero cat. He's welcoming us and he's at eye height and then you come down and you realise the scale. You suddenly realise you don't even come up to his shoulder. I mean, we're not that tall- but...

[Kit Kemp] We're just minute! Nevertheless, he's pretty monumental.

[Willow Kemp] This is our pet cat. And then we have a smaller pet dog at Charlotte Street Hotel.

[Kit Kemp] I think with this Botero cat, it's a real sense of arrival at the hotel.

[Willow Kemp] The hotel was actually built around it. It used to be a multi-story car park and this was craned in first.

[Kit Kemp] Do you know, it's extraordinary because I think actually with art, you forget that there are all kinds of arguments that you can have. And the biggest argument that Tim and I had was whether to place the Botero cat at an angle or straight on. And I hate things normally at angles, but in fact, I lost on this occasion.

[Willow Kemp] I love his little tongue sticking out. And look, you can see where people stroked his little paws on the patina and down here. The bronze is worn through in a different colour.

[Kit Kemp] Fernando Botero is Columbian. He's still living to this day. I mean, he's a live artist. It's so nice actually, to have somebody who's right here. He actually creates a lot of his work in Italy, in Pietro Santo. And whether he's thinking about his women or his animals, they're always larger than life. What I love about him is that he's actually kind of out of fashion a bit. Everything now with sculpture is going in a very different direction, but this is something that is built to last and he's certainly here to stay. He's not going anywhere else.