It is one of the most fascinating building reborn of the last years. Once a neo-gothic hat factory, the Colony arcade is now a luxurious 197 room-hotel, managed by Randy Taormina and re-imagined by Stonehill & Taylor, the team behind The NoMad and the Crosby street hotel. Loft-like rooms are very factory-ish and « raw aesthetic » [...]
I usually don’t review hotels of huge companies. But The Thief will be an exception. Owned by Petter A. Stordalen, the man behind Nordic Hotels (170 hotels in Northern Europe), this architect-meticulous-design establishment and art-curated hotel is one of the most exciting opening of 2013. It is the first Oslo waterfront hotel, located on Tjuvholmen, [...]
Two Italian chic hoteliers, already famous for their small and sleek hotel collection « Town House »in Milano and Torino have created in 2010 the brand Town@house Street. Alessandro Rosso and Simone Micheli wanted to revisit a former commercial and office spaces and transform them into studios and suites to live like modern urban nomads. This project [...]
This is a place where staying in London is like having the best of English atmosphere mixed to the coolest Japanese ambience. I love the latest creation of one of my favorite designer, the famed British designer Anouska Hempel (see her interview). La suite West is located on a quiet street on the edge of [...]
Having a drink with rhinos or sleeping with giraffes in Berlin? Is is what you want? Now, it is possible. And not if you visit the Zoo but if you stay at new Berlin’s hotel sensation Das Stue. And that’s not the whole thing. You also have an unforgettable meal from Paco Perez, a Michelin [...]
This Edwardian Grade II listed building was Erected in 1910 and considerably extended in 1937, is now an 8,900sqm project. The East End has never seen anything like this before. The brief by Singaporean hotelier Peng Loh was to create a contemporary luxury hotel to sit sympathetically within the existing building (the old Bethnal Green [...]
Brussels is emerging as one of the trendiest place for architecture. Old houses are renovated by inspired architects for the beneif or new modern nomads. Tenbosch House comprises two contiguous Hôtel de Maitres buildings dating from 1906. A aristocratic Brussels family commissioned the architect Benjamin de Lestré de Fabribeckers to construct the two houses, one [...]
Owned and renovated by Qatari owner this hotel is typically english but has some arabic touch that give the place a kind of Lord Byron travel experience. In South Kensington, boutique hotel The Adria has made itself comfortable in an 1870s, Grade II listed Victorian townhouse, though a 1950s-inspired elegance permeates its 24 individually designed [...]
The first time I came in Valencia, I immediately thought that this city will be soon a stunning place for art and design. When I visited Hotel Caro in may this year, I knew I was right. Very often we now read papers about incredible renovation or about historical places becoming contemporary icons. But sometimes [...]
I have recently discovered this brand new hotel in the small and charming town of La Rochelle. The history ogf the city is rejuvenated by this original creation. It is also a hotel where artist have left fragments of memories. The hotel seems to show us other realities than the daily ones. Instead of writing [...]