[Willow Kemp] We don't mind waiting around a little bit in the lobby when we're surrounded by such brilliant pieces of art. On the back wall here, are four by Sandra Blow. Very colourful, and they actually inspired this upholstered chair. We gave Helena Lynch some broad clothes in different colours, and she appliqued them on the wing chair.

[Kit Kemp] It’s an interesting space. It could be very difficult. And on one wall, we've got a Berber rug because why not hang a most beautiful piece of rug rather than stand on it. Then we have the four Sandra Blows against my Rick Rack, which is one of the fabrics that we've designed. And in front of it, a very contemporary chandelier by Gareth Devonald Smith, which echoes just on that white wall, going along here. The artwork, which we're going to mention later, and also, I think it's good to mention, our Terry Frost paintings, with all his colourful organic shapes. He came to be an artist quite late in life. And this piece is called “Halzephron which is such a difficult thing to say. And it's actually after an area on the Cornish coast, which is where pirates used to come and land and bring in their goodies from abroad. Next door to the Terry Frost, are these prints by William Scott.

[Willow Kemp] William Scott is one of the most celebrated of the Ulster artists.

[Kit Kemp] Yes. He took every day articles, I mean he loved frying pans

[Willow Kemp] and eggs,

[Kit Kemp] and he always liked that simplistic, rather child-like view. But at the time it was very, very different and very modern to do that. And his work actually is very well appreciated, now, in fact.

[Willow Kemp] I love the thought of having William Scott, Sir Terry Frost and Sandra Blow all in conversation around the lobby.

[Kit Kemp] You know, they would have done that in real life.

[Willow Kemp]  Absolutely.

[Kit Kemp] They all knew one another and they all appreciated each other's work. That thread. If you're in the know, if you are someone who appreciates art, you will see that link. And for us, there's that added little thing where we love textiles and that brings in the loom as well.

[Willow Kemp]  And this site-specific piece is by the artist, Hermione Skye-O'Hea. We found her at the Chelsea College of Arts degree show, and it's very interesting to see her work juxta positioned against an established artist, Conrad Shawcross.

[Kit Kemp] Conrad Shawcross is a very established artist and yet Hermoine was little more than a student when we bought her work. And immediately we knew that it would be perfect to actually sit above our reception desk. But Conrad Shawcross is a Royal Academician. In fact, he was the youngest one at one time. That piece, which is called "Time Rule," beneath it. It was actually a sort of living piece of art. He went in the Kingsway tube station, which joined Waterloo with Holborn and he made a rope making machine, which created a rope, which went all the way between these two places. So it's part of that installation from 2009.

[Willow Kemp] It really tells a story.

[Kit Kemp] It does, but it's time and it's travel, which is very appropriate for the hotel, which then brings us to "Humans Since 1982". And if you are waiting outside the lift to go to your floor and it takes a bit of a while to come, you suddenly turn around and you notice that this art piece is a living, moving installation and look, all the hands are moving in time. And then, before your eyes, it creates the time to the minute.

[Willow Kemp] So it's practical, it's artistic, it's making a mechanical object into art.

[Kit Kemp] It's fascinating. You could actually stand here for a while and just wait and see all these contabulations.

[Willow Kemp] There's chaos and then it comes into order.

[Kit Kemp] Exactly. And here it is. I think it's just coming into time

[Willow Kemp]  Well, its tea time.

[Kit Kemp] Right now, is it tea time? Let's go have high tea.