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'G' stands for glamour and Galway, a city that until now had everything except a first-class hotel to compete with overgrown Dublin. With its purple lights shimmering over an inlet of Galway Bay, a 10-minute stroll from the city centre, Monogram Hotel's flagship property is an act of faith in the imaginative powers of design director Phillip Treacy, milliner to the stars and Galway native. His fusion of styles, from Art Deco to baroque, with running motifs of shells, light and the swirls of the sea, does not disappoint. The Grand Salon, with its Tom Dixon installation of 400 chrome mirror-balls cascading from the ceiling, is the pick of four dramatic main reception rooms. The 101 bedrooms are more restrained, but Treacy's design stamp is found in details such as the elegant lamps. Huge beds, goose-down pillows, built-in plasma screens and spacious bathrooms add to the sense of luxury. Specially commissioned David Downton portraits of supermodels decorate each room. The restaurant offers a Mediterranean-influenced take on local produce, with an emphasis on pasta, fish and seafood; the indulgent ESPA at the g offers full- and half-day treatments in a tranquil roof garden.
WHEN TO GO
July, for the Galway Arts Festival.
ROOM TO BOOK
Treacy promises something dramatic for the forthcoming 2,500sq ft Linda Evangelista Suite.
CONTACT
Wellpark, Dublin Road, Galway, Ireland (00 353 91 865200; www.theghotel.ie).
COST
Doubles from 450 euros; suites from 680 euros
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