This season is brimming with a host of new luxury hotel openings including the experiential No Man’s Fort, on the private island of Solent and Foxhill Manor a Grade-II listed country manor home in the Cotswolds.

Hot on everyone’s lips, particularly when it comes to its dedication to interior design is Hotel Gotham in Manchester. A new five-star hotel, billing itself as "Europe's sexiest" which threw open its doors to A-list visitors this week.

It occupies a former bank dating back to 1935 originally designed by Edwin Lutyens and is awash with immense commitment to its Art Deco heritage.

Sixty individually designed bedrooms are spread over the first five floors, with the Art Deco influence running throughout with striking, bespoke geometric carpets. The bedrooms also feature travel trunk-style cocktail cabinets and wardrobes, leathers, velvets and furs.Beautifully rich wall finishes of metal, wood, leather and ceramic are used extensively and provide a richness and decadence that evoke emotions and moods of the past.

Room styles range from club, executive and suites up to the decadent, leather-clad inner sanctum suites to be found at the core of each floor.

Interestingly in comparison to some of the modern Manchester hotels which use height to bring in natural light, Hotel Gotham’s suites have a dramatic giant video screen, rather than windows which showcase a video of Manchester reimagined as a 1930s Manhattan-esque cityscape playing on guests’ arrival. You can see the video by clicking here.

Manchester’s iconic building was the perfect home for an eclectic mix of stars, business entrepreneurs, media tycoons, creatives and their dogs to meet, relax and indulge. To re-instate this type of king of clubs etiquette, Hotel Gotham has its own private members club titled Brass. A unique and luxurious environment, with exquisite service located on the rooftop.

The club, which will set you back £750 a year just to be on the list, features geometric tin-tiled walls, sleek leather booths and cut-glass decanter lights. The entrance is illuminated via a steel and brass staircase inspired by bank vaults and this is teamed with bespoke recycled timber coffee tables and industrial high tables.

The hotel’s restaurant, Honey, goes big on Art Deco. Situated on the fifth floor, the counters are based on period filing cabinets consisting of zinc, wood and marble and finished with brass Bank vault mesh, while the original half-moon windows offer views across the city.

Interiors emulate the building's banking past with Bowler hat displays, green glass wall lamps and 1900s Banker style chairs. 

We'd be keen to know your thoughts on this style, is it complete overkill or perfectly unique creating a point of difference for the hotel market?