New York interior design firm Roman and Williams has combined decorative Victorian elements with references to New York's jazz age in its ornate interior for the NoMad hotel in London.
Set in the former Bow Street Magistrates Court and Police Station in Covent Garden, the hotel is the first international outpost from American hospitality chain NoMad.
NoMad London features 91 guest rooms (top and above)
Its Grade II-listed building, which dates back to the late 1800s, houses 91 hotel rooms, a glass-domed restaurant-cum-greenhouse, a bar styled like a classic British pub and a grand ballroom set within the original court.
Roman and Williams aimed to enhance the Victorian features of the complex while inserting new decorative accents that reference 1920s New York. Each bedroom features a marble fireplace and gilded tracery wardrobes
"The challenge of integrating a newly built addition with the inherited architecture of the building materialised a space ripe with dichotomies," said the firm, which was founded by husband-wife duo Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch in 2002.
"Old and new, hard and soft, New York and London ? these principles abound and flourish throughout the building."
The building's glass-roofed police yard has been turned into a dining hall
Guests enter the hotel's lobby through its original porte-cochere.
The reception is tucked to one side, with a paravent covered in a hand-embroidered version of Watts of Westminster's archival pattern Pe...