When the interior designer Olga Polizzi opened the Hotel Endsleigh, in the Dartmoor National Park in the Devon region of southwest England, she had one goal in mind. She wanted it to “feel like staying in a friend’s house,” she says.
In this case, that friend happens to be the late Georgina, Duchess of Bedford, and her husband, the sixth Duke of Bedford. That house was their country villa, conceived by the architect Jeffry Wyatville (whose other clients included King George IV) in the early 19th century. Now in its newer incarnation as a hotel, it welcomes guests from all over the world.
