Designer dreams: Philippe Starck's most incredible hotels

St Martins Lane, London

Alice in Wonderland gets a celebrity makeover at this Covent Garden hotel. Guests enter through London’s tallest revolving doors to marvel at Starck’s dramatic welcoming area where he’s tampered with perceptions of scale: a stage of Portuguese limestone is populated with enormous white columns, around which lie oversized chess pieces, ceiling-high mirrors and ‘molar chairs’.