- - Here we are in the Whitby suite. This is our top suite. It's a penthouse and it has terraces on both sides. This suite, at the top of the building, is airy and light. To the north, it faces Central Park, to the south, downtown and a water tower. Because the actual area is so beautiful, all I've wanted to do is maximise that feeling of light and space. The room has two fireplaces, so it has two seating areas, divided by a lovely maple dining table, with an extraordinary character on top. She looks as if she comes from Egypt, and there she is, in all her glory, with a plant coming out of her head, looking as if it's the most magnificent hairstyle. We always say, in every room we should have one strong or even ugly piece, and in this room, it's our folk art piece from Scandinavia. It's hand-painted, it's 18th century, and it looks as if it's falling apart, but when you look at it from down the hallway, and looking through, it's such a wonderful, strong piece, and the colours just can't be reproduced. I think, actually, the uniqueness of a room is important. We have customised so many things within the room, lots of things that are bespoke actually look very simple. For example, the Chesterfield sofa here, by Pippa Caley, we sent her the actual pattern and the fabric and then she does her magic by embroidering these beautiful designs. She's made the cushions to match, it's all in the detail. On one wall we have five pictures by Louise Bourgeois. They're going from the ceiling right down to the floor and that doesn't stop us actually enjoying them. Her work is in major galleries all around the world. She's better known for her very large spiders, but she also weaves stories into fabrics and paint, and these are five of her little drawings here. There are some fun little touches around the room including the record player. The records are by Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Platters. You name it, they're there, and it's just fun to listen to it. Much better than headphones. Leaving the drawing room, we enter the first master bedroom. It's a simple room and this room has the most magnificent headboard and it's actually embroidered by someone called Natasha Hulse. She is a dress designer normally. You can see the little beads and flowers. It just gives that special effect. The opposite bedroom couldn't be more different. It's a red bedroom, if you have blue then you've got to have red. So on the walls of this room we've got some very interesting pictures. They're actually taken as pages from an adventure annual. They're beautiful illustrations I'm very keen on illustrations from books, so by framing them it gives you a chance to make more of the actual drawings themselves. Off the bedroom is the ultimate bathroom. It's arabescato marble. There's the wonderful silver, roll top, deep bath, where you could actually bathe in champagne or maybe even milk. The Whitby Suite isn't the only suite with a terrace in the hotel. I think the Whitby is actually defined by it's various terraces. Every room is different, but there is one that stands out. On the 15th floor, there's a really wonderful suite, a corner suite, and it's the Kumi headboard. The motif is taken from Russian folk art and there's a red horse on it and apparently, in Russian folk art this means, a time of change. I love horses and to me, this is just a very romantic room. There's another great suite on the 12th floor that has a wrap-around terrace. It's in taupes and yellows and in the bedroom, fabrics are by Blithfield, which is a wonderful, American company that we found and love to work with. Outdoor space within the hotel was the most exciting thing for us to think about and to design. The New York skyline is so dramatic. To come from your bedroom onto a beautiful terrace is the height of luxury and one to enjoy at any time of the year.