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44 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London W1

The Biltmore Mayfair

More than 15,000 m² of guest-room wallcoverings in 2018 at the Millennium Hotel, Grosvenor Square, now The Biltmore Mayfair, including a Phillip Jeffries schedule.

Hotel bedroom with grasscloth-effect wallcovering, navy armchair and full-height curtains, the Millennium Hotel, Grosvenor Square, now The Biltmore Mayfair.

At a glance

Client
The Biltmore Mayfair
Designer
Not recorded
Main contractor
Not recorded
Maker and paper
Phillip Jeffries
Area or rooms
More than 15,000 m² (guest-room programme, 2018)
Scope
Guest-room wallcoverings, including a Phillip Jeffries schedule
Year
2018

At a glance

  • Hotel now: The Biltmore Mayfair, LXR Hotels & Resorts
  • Hotel then: Millennium Hotel, Grosvenor Square
  • Address: 44 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair
  • Years on site: February to November 2018
  • Scope: a guest-room wallcovering programme of more than 15,000 m², on a schedule that included Phillip Jeffries

The work

The papers were hung to the schedule for that building, with the repeat and the set-out taken from the supplied drawings rather than from a generic roll count. Phillip Jeffries is named because it was on that schedule. That is not a claim to be a stockist or a manufacturer-approved installer.

Photographs on this page

Our own photographs of the guest rooms and corridors in 2018, first posted on our Instagram, @mrwallcover, on 14 June 2018 (BkBSc6AHX7U), when the programme of more than 15,000 m² had recently started. One shows a room during the works, with the floor still protected.

Photographs

Hotel room with textured neutral wallcovering behind a desk, lamp and red armchair, the Millennium Hotel, Grosvenor Square, now The Biltmore Mayfair.
Hotel suite with pale wallcovering, round table and curved banquette seating, the Millennium Hotel, Grosvenor Square, now The Biltmore Mayfair.
Desk corner of a hotel room with neutral textured wallcovering and a brass lamp, the Millennium Hotel, Grosvenor Square, now The Biltmore Mayfair.
Hotel guest room corridor with textured neutral wallcovering and dark timber door frames, the Millennium Hotel, Grosvenor Square, now The Biltmore Mayfair.
Hotel room under fit-out with wallcovering hung and floor protection down, the Millennium Hotel, Grosvenor Square, now The Biltmore Mayfair.
Close-up of a woven, natural-texture Phillip Jeffries wallcovering, the Millennium Hotel, Grosvenor Square, now The Biltmore Mayfair.

How the commission ran

The same standards, on every commission.

Whether the client is a hotel group, a designer or a household, the job runs the same way. These are the parts a photograph never shows.

  1. 01

    Survey and scope, room by room

    We measure the wall that will actually be hung, allow for the repeat and the wastage, and write a scope of works room by room before anyone orders paper.

  2. 02

    Preparation decides the finish

    Walls are filled, made good and primed until they are true. If a wall is not ready for the material specified, we say so before the last drop is ordered.

  3. 03

    Protection and containment

    Floors, furniture and finished joinery are protected as part of the hang. Work is contained and the place is left tidy each evening. In a home we are visitors; in a hotel we work around the house.

  4. 04

    Batch and shade control

    Deliveries are checked against the measure, and batches and shading are managed so that a corridor of rooms reads as one surface.

  5. 05

    Set out from the room's focal points

    Pattern is set out from chimneypieces, doorcases and bed walls, so the design meets the cornice and the joinery with composure.

  6. 06

    One team, then the return visit

    The people who start are the people who finish. Four to six weeks after completion we come back to look at every seam and edge, and the workmanship is guaranteed for twelve months.

See the finish up close: seams, internal corners, edges and joins from our own installations

By Dorin Burcus, founder · Last updated