St. Pancras Hotel interior By Manhattan Loft

Manhattan Loft's St. Pancras Hotel staircase with ornate red wallpaper and patterned carpet — The **Ladies' Smoking Room Staircase**, which, as the name suggests, originally led to the ladies smoking room.

This was a bit of first in a British Hotel in Victorian times as it was both progressive and somewhat scandalous – the idea that women would have a designated space to smoke, let alone one that required is own palatial staircase was well ahead of it's time.

Moving forward to the modern era, the staircase became a visual icon of 90s pop culture, featuring in both the film Batman Begins and the in the iconic film clip intro to the debut Spice Girls song, Wannabe.

Aerial view of ornate staircase with floral carpet, St. Pancras Hotel, by Manhattan Loft

St. Pancras Hotel interior by Manhattan Loft featuring ornate columns and detailed wall art

Manhattan Loft's St. Pancras Hotel interior with ornate wall details and patterned ceiling

Intricate stone arch and painted ceiling in St. Pancras Hotel by Manhattan Loft

St. Pancras Hotel interior by Manhattan Loft featuring arched windows and ornate ceiling

Grand staircase with patterned carpet and ornate railings at St. Pancras Hotel interior by Manhattan Loft

St. Pancras Hotel exterior with Victorian architecture by Manhattan Loft

Aerial view of St. Pancras Hotel interior by Manhattan Loft

St. Pancras Hotel interior by Manhattan Loft, featuring a high-ceiling bar and dining area

St. Pancras Hotel interior by Manhattan Loft, featuring elegant bedroom with large windows and rich drapery

Ornate interior of St. Pancras Hotel by Manhattan Loft with red walls and patterned carpet

St. Pancras Hotel interior pool with blue mosaic tiles and ambient lighting by Manhattan Loft

Overview

The St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel is a gothic revival masterpiece of architecture and interior design.

It forms the frontispiece of St Pancras railway station in London. It re-opened after eight years of restoration by Manhattan Loft, and occupies much of the former Midland Grand Hotel designed by George Gilbert Scott in 1873. The many original areas of the hotel have been renovated, and now house many different types of rooms, such as the Gilbert Scott restaurant and the ‘Ladies Smoking Room'; the first place in Europe where women where allowed to smoke in public.

Manhattan Loft:
“Not only was the building in an advanced state of disrepair, the ambition was to create a hotel incorporating all of today’s advanced technology into a building that had never allowed for such provision. Engineering had to be sensitively dovetailed into the existing building and it took a dedicated team of specialist contractors years of hard work, patience and immense skill at a cost of over £200 million to bring this iconic building back to life.”

St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel London:
“The building exemplifies High Victorian Gothic architecture in its most dramatic sense, the stunning redbrick building having been saved from demolition in the sixties by a protest led by former Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman. Preserving the glamour of the old station and the romance of rail travel during the 1800s, the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel London maintains its elegance and charm by offering global travellers a gateway to London in the form of one of the city’s greatest landmarks.”

Website: St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel
Photos by the St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel.