Plum + Spilt Milk

Plum & Spilt Milk

Great Northern Hotel, London

Tekne were subcontracted to fit out Plum & Spilt Milk, the hotel’s dining car-styled all-day dining room. The intention was to return the Great Northern hotel to its former glory, and the grand curved Italianate 1854 Lewis Cubitt building called for mirrored ceilings, chandeliers and wall panels to stay in keeping with its Victorian origins.

Described by the Evening Standard as ‘a dining room of chocolate leather horseshoe banquettes, walnut paneling, midnight blue walls and hand-blown glass lamps that fall from the sky’, the fit-out of Britain’s first railway hotel has had to be approached in a very delicate manner, which Tekne achieved successfully.