Hotel 850 SVB

Hotel 850 SVB is named after its address, 850 San Vicente Boulevard, and the number is fixed in brass to white clapboard under ivy. The clapboard belongs to a bungalow of 1918, and behind it rises a new building in pale stucco. Marc Appleton, the architect, and Rita Konig, a British designer, joined the two for Jeff Klein of the Sunset Tower, who took Europe's residential hotels as his model. Konig has furnished it as a house: at reception a stuffed bird in a glass case keeps to the shelves above a curved marble-topped desk, and on the wall beside it hangs a framed poster for boned kippers, about as English as a wall in Los Angeles gets. In one bedroom the panelling and the bookcase round the bed are the same pale blue, down to the frame of a round shuttered window, which leaves the colour to the spines of the books.

Recommended for grown-ups who want West Hollywood at a residential pace, with the Sunset Strip six minutes' walk away for when they do not. There is no restaurant and no pool, so the day runs as a house's would. Breakfast is set out on marble under yellow glass-fronted cupboards, pastries and fruit from the farmers market, and after it there is a bicycle to take out, or the Pacific Design Center's showrooms four minutes away on foot. Guests compare the interiors to staying with a friend who has very good taste. From five until seven the wine is complimentary, in the living room, and the roof deck has an outdoor fireplace and a view to the Hollywood Hills. A dog under 40lb is welcome, with cookies and tennis balls. After seven the honesty bar takes over, and the guests mix their own.