Belgravia's quiet Georgian streets have always attracted embassies and private wealth in equal measure, making Halkin Street an appropriate address for what became, when it opened in 1991, London's first purpose-built boutique hotel. COMO The Halkin was designed by Italian architect Laboratorio Associati, its London Georgian Revival facade — London stock brick, arched ground-floor colonnade, mansard roofline clad in patinated copper — calibrated to sit comfortably among the neighbourhood's stucco-fronted terraces without mimicking them. The interiors were conceived by Italian designer Lorenzo Carmellini, whose approach privileged material warmth over decorative gesture: deep-grained wood panelling lines the guest rooms in large, mirror-matched panels, dark marble surfaces anchor the bathrooms, and pale bleached timber floors run throughout, creating a restrained dialogue between cool and warm that has aged with uncommon grace across the hotel's 41 rooms and suites. The attic-level suites sit beneath barrel-vaulted white plaster ceilings that curve dramatically over the wood-panelled headboard walls — one of the building's most genuinely unexpected spatial moments. The ground-floor restaurant, now operating as Napo, is defined by its extraordinary ceiling installation: thousands of slender gilded tubes suspended in a dense, undulating canopy above oak parquet and arched windows overlooking the hotel's garden. The bar and lounge work in a softer register — ivory upholstered banquettes, striped wool carpet in slate and sage, pierced metal screens — the whole property maintaining a discipline that keeps it closer to considered private residence than conventional hotel.

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COMO The Halkin is a haven of luxury in the heart of London’s Belgravia with the shopping of Mayfair and Knightsbridge both within a 10-minute walk. With a discreet, efficient approach to service, everything about The Halkin is about elegant understatement and its intimate feel. From Monday 19th September 2022, the hotel will reopen after an elegant up-lifting of its spacious 41 rooms and suites. The Halkin is a true boutique hotel with bespoke Italian design is combined with subtle nuances of Oriental influence with wools, silks and linens in taupes and creams. Rooms are furnished with soft carpets and warm wood panelling, and boast some of the largest bathrooms in London. Each floor has now a dominant feature colour scheme reflecting the 5 elements of Nature which offer well-being and balance in our lives.