Soho House & Co's in-house design team and London architects Michaelis Boyd have overhauled a run-down farm in Oxfordshire to create Soho Farmhouse ? a hotel that combines English countryside style with "upstate New York cabin culture" (+ slideshow).
Soho Farmhouse occupies a 40-acre site in Great Tew, near Soho House founder Nick Jones' own home. It provides guest accommodation across a series of cabins, a cottage, a farmhouse and tents.
Soho Farmhouse occupies a 40-acre site in Great Tew, Oxfordshire
The site also houses facilities including a pub, farmshop and deli, children's entertainment area, cinema, gym, spa, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, restaurants and bars.
Soho House teamed up with long-term collaborator Michaelis Boyd to renovate the existing structures ? including a dilapidated water mill that now houses a country pub ? as well as create a series of new buildings on the site. Soho House and Michaelis Boyd renovated a number of existing structures as well as created a series of new buildings on the site
"[Nick has] always wanted something that gets the design right then takes the edge off it to make it feel like the building has ended up like that over time," explained Michaelis Boyd co-founder Alex Michaelis.
"We've had to learn how to quite carefully design things but just slightly pull it apart and take the seams out of everything so that you can't really tell sometimes that we've been involved."
The new structures i...