G Whizz ; Travel: As London Fashion Week Begins, Bethan Ryder Visits Philip Treacy's Gregarious Galway Hotel
Evening Standard - London › February 15, 2006
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MILLINER Philip Treacy, whose exotic creations are often seen atop his magnificently potty fashion muse Isabella Blow, has created his first hotel, the g. It is not an exotic location, however, sitting as it does on the edge of a retail park on the outskirts of Galway. There are views of a fine roundabout and it counts a multiplex and a vast PC World among its neighbours.
This might strike you as odd, but not only is Galway Treacy's home county but he lusted after the challenge of creating five-star fabulousness from the potentially incorrigible dirge of a retail park. It's a big ask. Has he managed it?See the full content of this document
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G Whizz ; Travel: As London Fashion Week Begins, Bethan Ryder Visits Philip Treacy's Gregarious Galway Hotel
The lobby resembles a decompression chamber, deprived of colour. It's black, glossy marble on black Venetian plaster, jazzed up by a white neon sign reading This Must Be The Place.
It's more nightclub than...See the full content of this document
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