In the heart of New York’s Garment District, steeped in industrial and fashion history, the independently owned 197-room Refinery Hotel opened last month in a former early 20th-century millinery factory.
The look is pure industrial chic, with high ceilings, dark brushed oak hardwood floors and hand-made wool rugs. Multiple nods to the building’s past range from the lobby, with its display of hat-making tools, and writing desks designed to resemble an early 1900s sewing machine in certain categories of room.
Cocktails are served in Winnie’s, the quirky tea lounge — named after the woman who served tea to workers here in the early 1900s. A rooftop bar is sectioned off into three parts — indoor, outdoor and a bit of both with a retractable glass roof and using wood salvaged from the original building.
Doubles from £265 room only, refineryhotelnewyork.com