- - [Kit Kemp] We're entertaining in New York. So let's go through the lobby, down the Kate Blee staircase, which is very colourful and bright, and straight into our Bollywood spill out area. We call it the Bollywood spill out area, because so many rooms spill out into it. We have the Anrep Room, the Araminta Room, and our Whitby theatre, with 130 bright orange seats. If I'm in New York and I want to entertain, then this is where we want to go. The Bollywood wallpaper has a six foot, vertical repeat. It's very large, it's backed on hessian, so there's a lovely warm feeling to that area. And there are Indian deities, and rather beautiful women and a few palm trees, and even a sacred cow, just meandering around the walls. Because it's an area with actually no windows at all, we invited Peter Rocklin to come over, and it's quite fascinating to look at the works. I think these six paintings, are about his best, that I've seen. Leading off the Bollywood spill out area is the Anrep Room. So called, because Boris Anrep was an artist. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he was painting and working, at the same time as the Bloomsbury Group. I became aware of his work, when I went to the National Gallery. On the floor as you climbed up the stairs, were these most beautiful mosaics by Boris Anrep. And I thought they weren't represented well, and they were a forgotten, wonderful, masterpiece of his. I felt that they needed to be seen on the walls, so we asked the Boris Anrep Trust whether we could reproduce them, and after much consultation they agreed. From Anrep, we go into Araminta. You can see more clearly the Melissa White wall paintings. The colour is a nice warm terracotta pink and beautiful greens. The room is different, because it has a dark blue fabric below the dado, and this gives a strength to this smaller room. It's a small dining room, but on one wall, we have 12 lovely lino cuts by Eileen Cooper. Eileen Cooper, who is The Keeper at the Royal Academy in London. Her work is filled with mythology, which works so well within our interiors. And that in itself, captures the imagination and increases the romantic side of the room. These rooms are brand new, but what I wanted to achieve in them, was a feeling of history and character. So that when you sat, or when you dined, or when you partied in here, you felt that there was some feeling of the past, and it had a strength to it. This is not the end of the party time, or the places where you can entertain in Manhattan. If we go down a level we arrive at the Reading Room. But before we get into the Reading Room, there's the most gorgeous lobby, and the lobby itself, has a lot to say. There's a beautiful root wood table in the centre, and above it is a fantastic light, by a South African artist, in brass and wood, looking like oars rowing across the top of the table. As we open the doors, we arrive at the Reading Room, which is a magical room, with a whole circle of dancing lights around the centre table. They're specially commissioned, and they're made of rope and also porcelain. When we designed the bookcase, we wanted to make areas to add other pieces of artwork. And they're mainly by Mimi from Biarritz, who's our friend. She's about 70 years old, and has more ideas in her little finger, than most people have in a lifetime. In this room we have her idea of sailing across the Great Atlantic. We have a maiden asleep in a little golden bower. We have a lone person on a desert island, underneath very tall palm trees. Then we have a loving couple standing on a wedding cake. Her imagination knows no bounds. This is a fun room and there are lots of things that you can do within it. You can have a long meeting, you could dine here. You could have a romantic supper, or you could just have a really great bash, after watching something at the theatre. We've tried to create spaces that capture the imagination, so when you're in them, there's an experience, before even your party or entertaining starts. We try and create talking points within the room. There are little surprises, quirky little things happening. Something that makes you aware of your surroundings, and that's one way to start a brilliant evening and it's one way to start enjoying yourself.