Splendour is the night: as a new tour at Claridge’s reveals how to make a lasting impact with decadent art deco interiors, Tatler discovers why the 100-year-old design movement never goes out of style

Claridge’s has long been a magnet for writers, artists and aesthetes seeking connection to a heady world of lacquer, marble, mirrored screens and chandeliers galore. There’s something infinitely beguiling in the balance between minimalism and hedonism, which the art deco period best encapsulates. And it’s for this reason I find myself examining the urns of flowers and fruit elegantly perched above the hotel’s portico – details that…