[Hotels And Photos] The Robertson House By The Crest Collection

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Formerly Park Hotel Clarke Quay, The Robertson House by The Crest Collection (its name an eponymous nod to Dr J. Murray Robertson, a prominent British municipal counsellor largely credited with transmogrifying Singapore's once fallow central swamplands into a hectic wharf district circa the 1880s) may be misperceived as evangelizing colonialism, given ostensibly impenitent showcases emblematic of entrepôt trade witnessed at every turn: mondo black-and-white stills capturing teeming dockside activity, cartographic prints delineating the long-defunct East India Company's Asiatic reach, multitudinous rattan fixtures, even the hotel lobby itself is smothered in some nutmeg and clove-tinged scent. Then again, there's no denying this whole "colonial-chic" affair, for better or for worse, does indeed pique.

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