Sleep Concept Hotel, part of Sleep Event, invited designers to plan and build a life sized hotel room.
The world-renowned British designer Kelly Hoppen have shown us a room and invited everyone to see her work! With the collaboration of several partners such as Crosswaters and Gervasoni, she made this amazing interior you’ll see in the images bellow. As well as designing hotels, Kelly Hoppen also undertakes another commercial design projects and private projects such as apartments, houses and yachts.
Kelly is currently working with Lux* Island Resorts to revive and rejuvenate Lux* Belle Mare hotel, in Mauritus and is also working on multiple undisclosed private residences all over the world.
Luxury Hotels in Venice you must visit – Venice is one of the most interesting and lovely places in the world.
This sanctuary on a lagoon is virtually the same as it was six hundred years ago, which adds to the fascinating character. Venice has decayed since its heyday and is heavily touristed (there are slightly more tourists than residents), but the romantic charm remains.
Here are some of the most beautiful luxury hotels in lovely Venezia!
Overlooking the Grand Canal, the Hotel Gritti Palace was originally constructed in 1525 to be the home of the Duke of Venice, Andrea Gritti. The hotel has retained the original features of frescoes and stucco. Throughout the public areas of the hotel, the delicate glass chandeliers, gilt ceilings and antique furniture are complimented by luxurious soft furnishings to create an opulent and warm welcome.
The Hotel Ca’ Sagredo is housed in a majestic building on Venice’s Grand Canal. It offers elegant upscale accommodation in a former 15th-century palace, which has now been declared a national monument.
The Bauer Il Palazzo hotel is the epitome of class and luxury – a boutique hotel that sits majestically at the edge of the Venice’s Grand Canal. The elaborate Gothic façade hides some of the most sophisticated and opulent rooms and suites Venice has to offer, with unsurpassed views combining to create a visual masterpiece.
The Luna Hotel has undergone extensive renovation to restore the interior with its original frescoes to its former glory.
The stunning décor of La Locanda della Luna, as it was known when it was the first hotel in Venice, is a major attraction which keeps guests returning time and again.
Hotel Danieli, formerly Palazzo Dandolo, is a five-star palatial hotel in Venice. It was built at the end of the 14th century by one of the Dandolo families. CNN cites it as one of the top five “lavish hotels” in the city. In 2010, extensive footage was shot at the hotel for The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.
Luxury Travel: Top 10 Fashion Hotels – Designers are quietly turning their hands to hotels around the world. There are appearing some luxury travel destinations with fantastic design hotels with vip sightseeing and gorgeous aesthetics. Here is our shortlist of the 10 best fashion hotels in the world from cool to conservative. They are luxury travel trends with fantastic designer works that worth a visit.
The 1920s villa has insides primped with a series of suites that range from zen to minimalist African. Their primary aim is yours physical and spiritual well being. The buffet is tasty and you can exit through a discreet door and reach the beach right on the Adriatic.
Casa Camper Barcelona is best suited to those who admire functional simplicity. Large suites incorporates lounge and bathroom with a courtyard for your rejoice. It´s a smooth place to stay if you want visit one of the most creative cities in the world.
Byblos Art Hotel at Verona, also known as Villa Amista of the XVI century, bears the out-there extravagance of Medici meets Warhol and Dali. The golden interiors bright on furniture. Byblos also host an impressive permanent contemporary art exhibition. It´s a place for luxury and elegance.
Miró Hotel at Bilbao is a streamlined António Miró style. It’s touches of red, citrus and artworks give a certain flamboyance. This Hotel is chic, cosmopolitan, has a SPA and a Bar with live Jazz. Is ideally located opposite to the Guggenheim Museum. Is the best choice to immersing on the city.
The Charlton House Hotel at Somerset is a translation between luxury and English country style that works perfectly. You can practice golf, horse riding, clay pigeon shooting or experiment amazing flavors at the awarded restaurant. Is a extreme comfortable, informal and splendorous decorated hotel.
Dublin Morrison Hotel is the coolest and most luxurious hotel in town. Some areas of the hotel have been refurbished since John Rocha brought it 1999. However, head for the luxury is at the penthouse: a John Rocha original. The panorama that you can see over the River Liffey and Dublin is astonishing.
The curious Pelican Hotel in Miami is quirky and just that little bit naughty. Each room are kitted out with a one-of-a-kind and found objects. From the smooth ‘Executive Fifties’ room to the lurid ‘Best Whorehouse’ are some fanciful spaces to admire. The restaurant has an award and just across the road you get the beach.
The Royal Windsor at Brussels was designed for 10 great Belgium designers. This hotel brings an exceptional sense of individuality and contemporary style. Each designer was certified to translate their own vision into the interior of a ‘Fashion Room’. The result is as unique travel experience.
The G Hotel at Ireland is extremely glamorous. The guests could travel through various eras that range from Versailles to Warhol with objects and furniture with proper shapes. Relaxing moments, beauty, desired interiors and best comfort are what you can find here.
The Blakes Hotel London Brit-based designer Anouska Hempel is like a high drama place. For those who crave the dark, striped sculptured shapes of her gowns, slink into what was her very first entrée into hotels. Each suite has a one-off original design. From gilt-edge glamour through to crisp Provencale clean, the constant is a four poster bed.
Where does your favourite celebrity sleep? This article will show you some of the most beautiful suites the celebrities choose. If you can’t sleep on their own beds try to do it after they’ve left. Not a bad way to choose a room, since celebrities often check-in to the very best suite a luxury hotel can offer. Take a look:
Go on, you know you want to stay here really; you just don’t want your friends to know. Celebrating the style of Ms Plastic Fantastic, this pretty in pink suite looks like Malibu Barbie’s dream house come to life. Fuchsia and black are the signature colours with that famous pink “B” scrawled on cushions and carpets. There are chairs that look like a laced up corset, a mirror framed in 65 Barbie dolls and a Jacuzzi. It’s the ultimate Bachelorette pad. What’s not to love?
For 37 years Coco Chanel lived here in the rarefied elegance of this suite overlooking the gardens and Place Vendome. Today, with each piece of furniture and every object carefully restored, you can enter her private style sanctuary. Baroque mirrors and Coromandel lacquers reflect light on the signature quilted padding of the sofas. An exquisite chandelier overhangs it all. Chanel’s eye wasn’t burdened by detail, and here none have been left to chance. Many famous people have left their legacy at the Ritz from the Windsors to Hemingway. But interestingly of all the suites that have remained devoted to them, none attracts as high a price as that of Chanel.
This three bedroom house built on a cliff overlooking a beach on the island’s north coast was designed by Ian Fleming himself. It is here that the author wrote all 17 of his James Bond novels. The house is currently the most luxurious property available at the Goldeneye resort although bedrooms in the four other villas on the estate all have suitably Bond Girl names such as Vesper, Domino and Solitaire. There are also 11 new beach cottages on Low Cay beach. Masterminded by owner Chris Blackwell (of Island Records fame) a development of new spa cottages is now underway.
This is the suite that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase lie-in. After they’d been in the Amsterdam Hilton staying in bed for a week (to misquote Lennon) John and Yoko moved to this room in Montreal and had all the furniture moved out into the hall apart from the bed in which they set up camp. The management would prefer you left the furniture alone these days although they pay homage with framed black and white prints of John and Yoko above suite 1742′s new four poster bed. The hotel still has the couple’s original room service order so if you want to eat like The Lennons, order poached fillet of sole, salad and scrambled eggs. They also asked for a cage big enough for a white rat, although nobody seems quite sure why. The hotel offers a ‘Give Peace a Chance’ package which includes a CD of Lennon lyrics, pyjamas and white flowers – at a celebrity price of course.
Built on the site of Charlie Chaplin’s house, hence the name, this discreet complex of 14 luxury bungalow is the new favourite with Young Hollywood (could this take over from Chateau Marmont as the celeb spot?). Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart of Twilight and New Moon fame reportedly hooked up here. The Bungalows however commemorate Old Hollywood with names like Marilyn (Monroe), Clark (Gable), Charlie (Chaplin), Gloria (Swanson), Marlene (Dietrich) and Gregory (Peck). This could be as near as you’ll get to being on a first name basis with stars of the silver screen, so enjoy it.
The Savoy re-opens in mid-2010 and when it does you can feed your inner artist by staying in the Monet Suite, which has been refurbished along with the rest of this London Grand Dame, now a Fairmont hotel. If French Impressionism is your thing you’ll know that Claude Monet painted dozens of London scenes and particularly loved the Thames, which snakes through the capital at the back of the Savoy. If you feel inspired you can nip along The Strand to the National Gallery and take in the Monet canvasses there.
Co-incidentally Noel Coward also stayed at Goldeneye but he is immortalised in his very own suite at Raffles hotel in Singapore. Coward’s first visit to Raffles was in 1931 and his last, almost 40 years later, in 1968. On his first visit he stayed for a month because his companion, Lord Amherst was taken ill. He later wrote about his first night, “There was a thunderstorm brewing and the airless heat pressed down on my head. I felt as though I was inside a hot cardboard box which was growing rapidly smaller”. Present day visitors will be glad to know the suite which bears his name is far more spacious than a cardboard box and the perfect place to sit and drink gin slings.
“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go,” Oscar Wilde said in lying on his bed in this hotel room in 1900. The wallpaper won and Wilde died soon after. The 20-room L’Hotel is a five star luxury hotel with all the trimmings – a little different from its star rating in Oscar’s day, when it was a fleapit called Hotel L’Alsace. Wilde was flat broke when he stayed here. The Jacques Garcia designed hotel does have a suitably flamboyant decor but Oscar would no doubt be relieved to know that the current walls are no longer covered with offensive wallpaper but framed letters written by the hotel management of the day asking Wilde to pay his bill. We advise you to think of something witty to say before you check in; you never know who might ask for a quote.
During World War II US President Franklin Roosevelt, Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek and Brit Prime Minister Winston Churchill met at Mena House for what became known as the Cairo Conference. Apparently Churchill was so fond of the view from suite 623 he slept with the curtains open so he could see the pyramids of Giza, which are close to the hotel. There is also a Montgomery Suite (706) if you are more into the idea of being in the front line rather than saving the world by negotiation.
Vera Wang has a particularly refined form of resort wear. Largely black and often structured, it is beautiful, yes, but one can wonder where to wear it. Wang has provided a solution to this with her eponymous suite in the 100 year old Halekulani Hotel that overhangs the edge of the ocean at Waikiki. Here Wang combines charcoal drapes and dark wood overtones with a delicate interlude of neutrals. Not a snip of tropical rattan is in sight. Adding to the elegance is Wang-style service with her own perfumes, limousine transport, personally selected movies and a self-styled cocktail suggestion.
Each of these hotels comes from a unique background and has an interesting story to tell.
This article offer guests the chance to get insider tips on unseen locations, venture into
untouched places, and get a behind the scenes look at striking properties around the world.
Creating a hotel that both defines a city and represents a nation is a daunting task. But it’s one that Nairobi’s Shamim Ehsani and his family pulled off to masterful effect.
At the age of twelve, environmentalist and philanthropist Petter A. Stordalen became Norway’s top seller of strawberries. Today, he’s not only preserving the environment, he’s reshaping it with an island hotel that’s setting a new standard for sustainability, art, and architecture. A world-class waterfront hotel in Oslo’s most anticipated cultural hub, The Thief will steal you away from everyday life.
3. Wiesergut, Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria, by Sepp & Martina Kröll
Just an hour away from Salzburg, Sepp and Martina Kröll have transformed a 14th-century family estate into a modern retreat that exudes organic warmth and comfort.
4. Factory Hotel, Münster, Germany, by David Deilmann
Hip nightclub meets landmark-protected building, industrial aesthetics meet cozy comfort, urban dynamism meets serene retreat: with his Factory Hotel, architect David Deilmann has brought together seemingly contradictory elements and transformed them into a unified whole.
By marrying rustic charm with an international sense of styling, Uschi Schelle-Müller and her Hotel Kitzhof Mountain Design Resort celebrate the timeless grace of the Tyrolean way of life.
The newest property from the vanguard 25hours Hotel Company, the industrial-chic 25hours Hotel Zürich West, in the Swiss city’s exciting, arts-filled fifth district, places the local environment at the core of its colorful design concept.
With their fully renovated and perfectly curated Domaine des Andéols, Olivier and Patrizia Massart have rekindled the artistic soul of this one-of-a-kind country estate.
Des Gunewardena and David Loewi made their name crafting London’s dining renaissance. Now with South Place, their first hotel, they are forging a new revival and following a lifelong calling.
Classic meets contemporary at visionary Israeli hotelier Georgi Akirov’s Conservatorium. One of central Amsterdam’s most iconic buildings, it was transformed into a sophisticated boutique hotel at the hands of Milan-based star architect Piero Lissoni.
Though its rooftop infinity pool feels like the apex of contemporary global luxury, Grand Hotel Central is both an ode to the golden age of travel and an homage to its environment. Owner Pau Guardans seeks to connect guests with the rich local culture and traditions at their doorstep, from the merchants and artisans that populate the hotel’s vibrant El Born neighborhood to the market-sourced cuisine prepared on site by renowned chef Ramon Freixa.
Combining a sense of artistic whimsy with cutting-edge design, the new Wanderlust in Singapore’s Little India was created with adventurous travelers in mind. Owner Loh Lik Peng, a local hero after the success of his New Majestic Hotel, gave four different design firms each a floor to create their own interpretation of contemporary style and comfort.
Under the audacious eye of Marianna Serandrei, Ca’ Pisani has become both an international art hub and the initiator of a new Venetian élan—ancient repubblica reinvented as cultural oasis.
13. C-Hotel & Spa, Lake Como, Italy, by Andrea Colzani
In the hills above Lake Como, ringed with grandiose palaces and villas, stands a marvel of modern minimalism: the C-Hotel & Spa, a stunning glass-and stone retreat opened by prodigious hotelier Andrea Colzani on his 28th birthday.
Sleep Event 2013 takes place already from November 20th to November 21th 2013 at Business Design Centre 52, Upper Street N10QH London and it promises to gather the best of hospitality design, fusing inspiration, innovation and opportunities for the design, development and architecture of hotels across the globe. As the official partner of the European Hotel Design Awards, this year it will be unveiled during Sleep Event 2013 the Architecture of the Year.
Luxury, privacy, anonymity. It’s a potent combination that makes hotels the stars on many movie scenes. Check these five movies where the hotels shined too. Don’t forget the popcorns!
The hotel turns 125 this year, and completed an $8 million renovation in 2012. Over its long history, the Victorian hotel, noted for its wraparound porches, has been the site of many films,
This hotel starred as a location for 1959′s Some Like It Hot film, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmonstarred.
Timberline Lodge acted as the exterior of the Overlook Hotel in the movie adaptation (1980) of Stephen King’s novel The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson. Many of the outdoor scenes were shot at the Timberline, a ski resort in the shadows of Mount Hood. Creepy indoor scenes, including endless hallways, along with the hedge maze scene, were sets created in the United Kingdom at Elstree Studios.
The 1928 Italian Renaissance style hotel, now part of the Four Seasons, just around the corner from Rodeo Drive, offers nearly 400-room hotel including 137 luxury suites and a Mediterranean-style pool with cabana packages starting at $180.
The Beverly Wilshire is referred to by some locals as the Pretty Woman hotel for its role in the 1990 film starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.
The sleek Park Hyatt Tokyo is a quiet refuge in Tokyo’s vibrant Shinjuku area for the characters of Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray in the 2003’s movie Lost in Translation. “Ten years have passed since the film’s release, yet it continues to be a catalyst for people to discover both Park Hyatt Tokyo and the city of Tokyo,” said Philippe Roux-Dessarps, Park Hyatt Tokyo’s general manager.
It’s a location made for a bachelor party, and indeed the hotel starred in that very role in the 2009 movie TheHangover. It’s easy to understand how you could mislay the groom a day before his wedding when there are no fewer than six pools for socialising, relaxing, or topping up your tan, from the Fortuna Pool which offers swim-up blackjack, to the Venus Pool with the roving margarita and mojito cart.
Fitness-minded travelers are in good hands at these ten hotels that make getting in shape -and staying that way – a priority. Here, our current crop of best fitness facilities.. There’s no more excuses. Take a look and work out!
Philippe Starck designed the sprawling, über-modern 24-hour fitness center and its iconic rooftop pool. Bonus: Several suites include private fitness rooms with Technogym machines.
Top 10 of the Wildest Hotels from Around the World – From an underwater retreat to a leaning tower, take a look at some of the wildest and most design-driven hotels across the globe. We’ve found the top hotels that shatter all your expectation.
So whether you’re planning an escape for a few days or just want to take a virtual trip around the world, check out these 10 hotels that bring the best in art, design, and adventure under one roof.
The sheer chance to chill in this lobby would be a vacation in and of itself. The flashy new Barcelo Raval in Barcelona is girly and enticing. In the lobby, the hot magenta seating dominates against the dazzling sparkles of the interior column and stark black and white.
Nestled in the Shuiguan Mountains and spread over eight square kilometers along the Great Wall of China, this collection of properties boasts some of the most creative and modern architecture in the area. Each of the 236 rooms and suites scattered across the commune offer views of the Great Wall. This one, the “See and Seen House” by architect Cui Kai, is a bona fide glass masterpiece.
What first opened in 1990 as an exhibit by a French ice artist has since become a magical and rather chilly chance for guests from around the world to experience the feeling of sleeping in an igloo. Crafted from ice and snow, each year Ice Hotel is rebuilt by visiting artists and creators. Though the temperature never drops below 23 degrees Fahrenheit, guests don thermal underwear and hats and slip into a sleeping bag atop blocks of ice, a thick mattress, and reindeer skins. Here, a magical chandelier hangs in one of last year’s halls. Open December 10 to mid-April yearly.
Though the recently opened hotel in France has been built in the Belle Epoque style, the hotel’s interiors are hardly antiquated. The bar, designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini, uses treelike sculptures and scattered lights across the walls and ceilings to create an organic yet futuristic feeling.
Sitting on a man-made island located just off the shore, this modern and fanciful hotel has the effect of a sailboat drifting off to sea. At 321 meters high, this Tom Wright design stands as one of the world’s tallest hotel buildings and has become an icon of the Dubai skyline.
Nestled in the cerulean waters of a Fiji lagoon and accessible only by elevator are suites submerged a full 40 feet underwater. No oxygen required, it has all the luxuries of an aboveground getaway but with an unparalleled view. A weeklong stay is split between the underwater suite and beach cabana accommodations so visitors can still fall asleep to the waves and the hotel can handle the high-demand for ocean immersion.
Mexican hotelier Carlos Couturier turned a former 19th-century water-purifying center in a colonial city into this minimalist and modern traveler’s space. Here, the juxtaposition of purple modular furniture and an aquarium-esque pool against the traditional Iglesia de San Francisco is just one of the aspects that gives La Purificadora its old-meets-new charm.
With doors, walls, ceilings, and even floors made completely of green glass and black steel, this surreal space is futuristic, eerie, and intriguing all at once. But though it may seem stark, the glass construction welcomes the influence of nature and adds organic style. Here, a glass floor allows a visitor to view the raw earth beneath.
Slated to open in the fall, this leaning hotel will have the greatest angle in the world. We are eagerly awaiting this curvaceous tower, which has passed its halfway mark and is designed not to be the largest or tallest building in the world, but one with the most breathtaking aesthetic.
The Best for Hotel Interiors at Boutique Design New york 2013 – The Boutique Design New York (BDNY), a new hospitality trade fair, will take place next 10th and 11th November in New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. It will also coincide with the esteemed 95-year-old International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show (IH/M&RS).
Boutique Design New York is the leading trade fair for the hospitality and leisure design industry, held in New York City on an annual basis. Ranked as the fastest growing trade fair in the United States, BDNY brings together thought leaders from all sectors of the hospitality design community to explore what’s new and what’s next.
The fair will give hospitality vendors the opportunity to display high-end, unique and innovative lines that are seldom seen at other trade fairs. Designers, architects, purchasers and developers will join the hotel owners and operators already attending IH/M&RS to view the best of the design industry’s offerings.
More than 325 exhibitors and over 5,000 attendees will come together to this gallery of inspiration for hospitality interior design. Among its exhibitors, take a look at the following:
Boca do Lobo designs exclusive and rare craftmaships pieces, and it will be showcased next to its partners Delightfull (unique lighting), BRABBU ( casegoods, rangement, arts and lighting) and Koket (opulent goods).
With thirty years of experience in the residential furnishings arena, Phillips Collection introduces its Hospitality Division, Phillips Collection Hospitality.
Top 10 of stunning hotel lobbies around the world – “Welcome!” – They say. The first step you take into those hotels be sure you’ll be completely mesmerized. These are the most incredible lobbies you will ever see. Some are glamourous, other unusual, but all these lobbies are certainly amazing.
Check the short top 10 list of the stunning hotel lobbies around the world, waiting for you.
Al Bustan Palace, a Ritz-Carlton hotel in Muscat, Oman, welcomes guests with a reception area that is palatial and ornate. Rising 39 metres to the centre of a grand dome – which is three metres longer than the Taj Mahal dome – its centrepiece is a 5.5 tonne crystal chandelier.
Hidden in the hills that surround Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, Veranda is designed to allow guests to relaxing, rejuvenating escape. The experience begins when visitors check in at the property’s open-air reception, before passing a tranquil pool to access their rooms.
Dubai doesn’t do discreet. The 18-metre-high Grand Lobby of Atlantis, The Palm radiates around a vividly coloured glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly. His first installation in the Middle East, it took almost two years to make and is made from over 3,000 individually blown glass pieces.
Admittedly the lobby of the ITC Grand Chola hotel in Chennai would look less impressive without a procession of elegant, sari-clad staff members lined in greeting, but it is an imposing space nonetheless. Gleaming marble abounds in the lobby, and the hotel as a whole features one million square feet of hand-carved marble.
One of the most romantic reception areas we’ve highlighted, the lobby at Phulay Bay, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, is located in a Thai pavilion situated on an island that is surrounded by thousands of gently flickering candles. You’ll find the hotel in Krabi in Thailand.
Guests at The Royal Livingstone in Zambia have an unconventional start to their stay at the hotel. Rather than checking in as normal, they’re taken to the property by water taxi and check in at the hotel’s jetty where they’re treated to hand massages and a fruit cocktail.
The Burj Al Arab the distinctive sail-shaped hotel off the coast of Dubai. Those staying in the property begin their lavish experience at the property upon entering the soaring atrium that houses its lobby and check-in area.
The entrance to the Cumberland Hotel in London looks more like an art gallery than a lobby, and it often serves that purpose. The lobby houses modern works of art that should provide guests with an immediate talking point and, more generally, the space hosts a number of exhibitions throughout the year.
In Kowloon in Hong Kong, Hotel Icon houses Asia’s largest indoor vertical garden within its lobby. French botanist and artist Patrick Blanc designed the feature, which measures 18 metres in height and covers 230 square metres. Consisting of numerous native plants, the vertical garden functions as a welcome natural sight within the congested city centre.
At 42,000sq ft and 17 stories high, the lobby of the Hyatt Regency San Francisco is the world’s largest. A dramatic meeting-point, it’s popular as a venue for events.
These are, beyond any question, the guestrooms of our dreams. Glamourous and super comfy, these suites certainly aren’t cheap, but will provide you the best time of rest. You know what they say: You’ll feel like a princess and sleep like a baby.
Check the short top 10 list of the luxury suites that we found in London.
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