Six Senses London reveals founding leadership team

Six Senses London has shared details of its founding leadership team.

Taffryn Kinsey-Ellis, director of wellness, and Charlotte Pulver, head alchemist, will oversee spa, recovery and longevity. Pulver will bring hands-on alchemy into daily hotel life through plant medicine, distillation and water-led rituals.

The hotel is to be led by general manager Nick Yarnell, whose career spans more than 30 years in luxury hospitality. Yarnell previously led the opening of Six Senses Douro Valley and currently also acts as regional general manager for Europe.

“What makes this opening particularly meaningful is that everyone has joined organically, drawn to the values and culture we are building,” he says.

Six Senses London will officially open on March 1, marking the brand’s first destination in the United Kingdom.

Located within The Whiteley in Bayswater, the hotel has been designed by AvroKO in collaboration with EPR Architects.

Six Senses London will comprise 109 rooms and suites, and 14 residences, as well as Six Senses Place London, the brand’s first private members club.

The Six Senses Spa

There will be a Six Senses Spa as well as spaces dedicated to wellbeing, sustainability and community. The spa will feature a longevity medical clinic – the Biohack Recovery Lounge – a 20m pool and London’s first magnesium plunge pool within a hotel.

Additional facilities will include a cold plunge, floatation pod, cryotherapy chamber, sauna and steam room. There will be a 325sqm fitness suite along with movement studios for meditation, yoga and aerial yoga.

There will also be two double and six single treatment rooms, a sensory suite and a relaxation room.

A different approach to urban hospitality

Six Senses London has created a small number of specialist roles that shape how the hotel functions day to day.

Programming and community are shaped by Nico Eden, director of Six Senses Place, and Ailsa Kerr, director of programming.

Eden brings experience across conservation and community development. Kerr will curates an evolving programme of talks, workshops and gatherings designed to help people reconnect.

Sustainability is led by Patrick Jones, director of sustainability, whose focus is on embedding circular thinking into daily hotel operations and engagement through the Earth Lab.

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