Holm House
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Marine Parade (aka ‘Millionaire’s Row’), on a headland overlooking the Bristol Channel, is lined with grand 19th- and early 20th-century houses built by wealthy shipping merchants. You can now share these calm and privileged surrounding thanks to the opening of Holm House. For once, the adjective ‘unique’ almost falls short. This stunning newcomer is not a boutique bolthole or cuddly country house. It’s not a townhouse or cool, contemporary modern masterpiece. Truth be told, it’s all of these… and more besides. It’s an amazing confection of top-end 2008 design and 1920s gaiety. There are splashes of Japan and dashes of art deco in a house that pays homage to its rich past while embracing today and tomorrow in an arty, funky way.
// YOUR HOSTS
Margaret Hewlett and Susan Sessions
Across-the-board appeal
Soothing and relaxing
A true one-off, a masterpiece of interior design and attention to detail
It manages the near impossible - its cutting edge and classic
Superb spa, peaceful location
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The rooms are all one-offs. One, for example, is almost entirely white. Another has a black lacquered four-poster and gleaming brass bath perfectly positioned for admiring the sea view. Or would you prefer the room with the silver suede bed and see-through Perspex furniture? You get the picture? The bar looks like something straight out of the decadent/elegant Prohibition era – which, of course, it is. And the shimmering restaurant serves fine modern British cuisine with a quirky edge. There’s more: a superb spa, gym and pool. And, of course, that special location – in the charming Victorian resort of Penarth just across the bay from Cardiff, Wales’s capital. Your hosts at this unique (we’ll say it again) hotel are Susan Sessions and Margaret Hewlett.