Comeback King: a new hotel for the man behind the fallen Birch
- Posted on November 21, 2025
- By Financial Times
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Comeback King: a new hotel for the man behind the fallen Birch

Chris King’s Birch brand was hailed as ‘the future of the British hotel’ — then swiftly went bust. As he launches Crafted, a new retreat in East Sussex, he tells Simon Usborne what went wrong