Firmdale Hotels is privately owned by husband and wife Tim and Kit Kemp and comprises ten award winning luxury hotels in central London and New York. In London’s West End there is the Ham Yard Hotel which opened in 2014, The Soho Hotel, Covent Garden Hotel, Charlotte Street Hotel and Haymarket Hotel as well as the three townhouse properties including Dorset Square Hotel in Marylebone, Knightsbridge Hotel near Harrods and Number Sixteen in South Kensington. In New York there is the Crosby Street and the newly opened Whitby Hotel.
The working relationship between the Firmdale group and Chelsea Textiles spans more than two decades. Chelsea Textiles hand embroidered fabrics and hand made furniture perfectly fit within the colourful, whimsical public spaces and rooms of each of the Firmdale hotels.