Other business activities included the restoration of one of Glasgow's most famous hotels, One Devonshire Gardens.

The area is popular with tourists, and contains many hotels, including the prestigious One Devonshire Gardens, which has accommodated a number of celebrity guests on visits to the city.

His Glasgow projects have included a hotel, One Devonshire Gardens; a restaurant, the Penguin Cafe, and a shop that sells decorative objects, called One.

One Devonshire Gardens Three grand 1860's town houses, part of a tree-lined Victorian terrace, make up this splendid 25-room, two-suite hotel in a residential section of Glasgow.

One Devonshire Gardens, Glasgow G12 OUX; (44) 41 339 2001, fax (44) 41 337 1663.

Devonshire Gardens is a B-listed terrace of five townhouses, constructed in the 1870s.

Amaryllis was awarded a Michelin star in 2002, which had been previously awarded to another restaurant at One Devonshire Gardens since 1995.

Scotland's leading jewellers, Edinburgh based Hamilton and Inches, have brought a huge selection of the finest examples of their work to the west end's Devonshire Gardens.

One Devonshire Gardens in Glasgow's West End has been a city institution for decades.

Inside, One Devonshire Gardens is equally grand, with wood panelling and light streaming through a huge stained?glass window above the imposing staircase.