Postwar Pop OverIn London, Holloway Li tailors Club Quarters Hotel St. Pauls to accommodate business and pleasureByKelly Pau January 30, 2025Interiors, International (Nicholas Worley)SHAREAcross from Londons St. Paul Cathedral, Club Quarters occupies a postwar building first completed in the 60s. The hotel was originally designed to cater to business travelers but the operators wanted to expand the reach of their audience. StudioHolloway Liperformed the double duty so often dealt to architects and designers: to guide the brief befitting the companys goals and redesign the building. The interior architecture studio, run by Alex Holloway and Na Li, opted to incorporate lifestyle-leaning designs to open up the clientele, creating a tailored, bespoke approach that speaks to both the hotels previous traditions and the buildings history. The most interesting thing about [the building] was that it had quite an adventurous facade of a textured stone motif. And on top of that, it has cast-iron sculptures by Geoffrey Wickham, Holloway toldAN Interior. The reimagined hotel pays homage to these idiosyncrasies. The entry is greeted with a 10-meter-long feature wall of carved cherry wood, a riff on the motifs found outside. Holloway Li designed the wall, which breaks up the line of elevators, with furniture maker James Trundle, using digital modeling to create the textures of each tile that is then carved with a CNC machine before theyre finished by hand.Read more about the hotel on aninteriormag.com.