Everyone needs to know about these hotels*.
They’re trendy, cute, different, sexy and ready to spoil you forever…
1. Barcelona: Hotel Neri
In an eighteenth-century palace in the centre of Barcelona, the echoes and character of the past have been masterfully combined with a wholly contemporary style. All the ingredients of an elegant epoch have been integrated into the design of Neri’s guestrooms and common areas, transporting modern-day visitors to another period.
2. Brussels: Fashion Suites
The Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place in Brussels has opted for extreme personalisation by entrusting the decoration of a selection of their guest rooms to Belgian famed Fashion Designers. The Fashion rooms offer a fundamentally different world of experience to travellers seeking novelty, sensation and exclusivity.
3. Florence: Gallery Hotel Art
Leonardo Ferragamo’s vision of beauty, art and hospitality. The son of Salvatore Ferragamo , since 1995 creates its own world of hotellerie in Florence.
4. Frankfurt: 25 hours
24 hours are not enough in a day. The Goldman 25hours applies nightclub principles to a hotel, resulting in a flowing, funky space that works both as a hideaway and a local hot spot.
5. Istanbul: A’jia Hotel
A realm of dreams and fairytales at the seaside of Bosporus in a mansion that combines future and past with a magical touch of white and deep blue.
6. London: Blakes
Created by Anouska Hempel, the London hotelier and internationally renowned designer, the hotel offers her style, elegance and sensational service to the well-travelled connoisseur.
7. Madrid: Puerta America
Nineteen architectural and design firms representing 13 nationalities were involved in the construction and each of the 12 guestroom floors; each bears the imprint of a single cutting-edge designer
8. Paris: Le petit moulin
This 17th century building, the site of an ancient bakery, has been completely renovated by Christian Lacroix and now is one of the sexiest hotels in the world. “I always loved the idea of hotels, of the journey around a room” Christian Lacroix.
9. Verona: Byblos Art Hotel
Byblos Art Hotel Villa Amistà in Verona offers a unique and evocative setting with all the characteristics of a classical Venetian-style Villa with a Byblos touch and a permanent contemporary art exhibition.
10. Vienna: Le Meridien
Entwining old and new, the irresistible Le Méridien Vienna marks the front line of the city’s famous Ringstrasse, reflecting 21st century European lifestyle, this urban chic hotel maintains its chilled out essence whilst delivering ultra attentive service that attracts sophisticated travelers.
RUNNER UP’s
Not in the top 10 list but very close:
11. Paris: Kube
Tucked into a tiny, quiet street at the summit of Paris’ Montmartre is a retro-future hotel that defies the classical clichés of Paris, fitting rather into a Jacques Tati vision of modernity.
12. Copenhagen: Fox Hotel
For the launch of the new Volkswagen Fox 21 international artists from the fields of graphic design, urban art and illustration turned Hotel Fox in central Copenhagen, into the world’s most exciting and creative lifestyle hotel.
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*Article copyrighted © by Savas Kazantzides, Athens , November 2008
DISCLAIMER: All these hotels represent the editor’s choice and are selected after personal inspection. By no means they represent any selection or proposal offered by other media nor they are connected to advertising purposes or fees collected.
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