The newly renovated hotel has been wowing travel reviewers around the world, with Condé Nast Traveller giving it a seal of approval. Here, our reviewer checks in for a night and hears about its impressive makeover from owners, John and Francis Brennan

Imagine yourself in the mid 1920s in a smart new, middle-class British suburb. Unless you are some well-heeled visionary aesthete collecting progressive design, your interior décor has a heavy fog of the dull and expected.

Kya deLongchamps highlights three artists who brought us the best of decadent Art Deco sculpture in the 20s and 30s.