L’Oscar is being created within the 110-year-old building, which was derelict for several years before being subject to the no-expense-spared renovation.
Garcia is known for designing several luxury hotels, such as the much-copied Hotel Costes in Paris, La Mamounia in Marrakech, Le Royal Monceau Raffles Paris and several houses for the Sultan of Brunei.
Inside the hotel, 39 rooms have been crafted out behind the façade of a Grade II listed building on Southampton Row in Holborn. The original octagonal 1903 chapel, complete with glass-topped dome, will now be L’Oscar’s main restaurant, The Baptist Grill.
