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Working weekend: business meets leisure at the Grove, a Fox Linton Associates hotel in Hertfordshire, U.K.

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From: Interior Design
Date: 20040101
Author:Kellogg, Craig

First the concept of the "weekend" emerged--linguists say the word was coined in 1638. Precisely 201 years later, weekends made a grand entrance at the Grove, extensively remodeled by the fourth Earl of Clarendon. Horace Walpole and Queen Victoria herself were known to arrive on Saturday and remain through Monday morning. After the First World War, louche interludes revolved around such visitors as Vita Sackville-West, who kicked off her lively career as a part-time lesbian during one much discussed episode at the Hertfordshire estate.

The party atmosphere began to fade when ...

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