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Nordic Light Hotel promises an exceptional visual experience. Through its minimalist elegance and implicity, it offers a calm, relaxing environment for busy souls. Carefully applied accent colors and striking contrasts add an inviting touch of warmth and life.
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One is built on a steel, L-shaped frame, with micro-holed plates forming a metallic cage around concrete walls. An elevated entranceway opens to an elegantly furnished lobby in which traditional reception desk has been replaced by two minimalist totem poles made of lacquered metal. From them, a long, lit runway leads to the fitness room, underground spa and clinical beauty area.
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Inspired by the traditions of Indian film - glamour, performance and drama - The Park, Chennai was constructed on the former premises of the Gemini Film Studios, ensuring the continuation of years of theater. Extending a typical Tamil welcome in modern form, the hotel’s lobby is home to an artwork of lotuses by artist Hemi Bawa. From here guests are beckoned through to the sleek atrium area, where a restful ambience is generated with pale cream lime stone, aqua leather and cocoa velvets. By night though, things are different. Image projections, light and sound transform the atrium in to a hub of activity for Chennai’s chic elite. Guestrooms remain havens of calm, with muted colors and gentle lighting. Beech wood floors and frosted glass contrast with more local flavors in the shape of coconut shell inlaid tables and parchment lamps. Original film posters leave a touch of a glorious past in the hotel that reflects a very bright future.
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Introducing Mondrian South Beach Hotel Residences
Published by square. November 19th, 2007 0 Comments
Introducing Mondrian South Beach Hotel Residences, an exciting new destination from the creators of Los Angeles’s Mondrian and Miami ’s Delano. Located in newly fashionable Biscayne Bay, the hotel is a quiet enclave just minutes from the bustling center of South Beach with spectacular views of the ocean, bay and downtown Miami . The curvilinear modernist building has 335 studios, one and two bedrooms and penthouses designed by one of the world’s most inventive young talents: multiple award-winning Dutch designer Marcel Wanders.
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The Hotel Puerta América will undoubtedly become renowned as one of the great five-star luxury hotels. A sensorial and intellectual feast that clearly upholds the maxims of hotels in its quest for quality and innovation. Through a space brimming with an array of different shapes, materials and colours, the aim is for the guest to become involved, to discover a new way of experiencing a hotel without sacrificing comfort. The goal is move towards a new concept in hotels, while at the same time creating a new dimension in services and facilities in order to make visitors’ stays more pleasant.
Under the motto “A passion for excellence”, the hotel reflect this philosophy in their care for guests, always going a step further in delivering the services most important to guests, such as high quality dining facilities, leisure facilities, parking, and relaxing grounds.
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A jewel of a restored English hotel, The Rockwell manages to combine traditional charm with contemporary ambience. A four-storey South Kensington Victorian terrace house was retrofitted to the highest standards, with modern touches such as vivid green window sashes and delicate glass balustrade.
A sense of hushed sophistication is apparent the moment you enter: stone staircases, wrought-iron banisters and a Victorian mosaic floor in the lobby are combined with contemporary furniture and fabrics. The stylish bar, One-Eight-One, serves modern interpretations of traditional English food, in keeping with the hotel’s overall theme (and dovetailing with England’s cooking renaissance and rediscovery of its own culinary roots), in a dining area that extends to a terraced garden. The 40 individually designed guestrooms are masterpieces of contemporary styling with a distinctly English twist, including floral wallpaper and original architectural details, but a spareness of line and ultramodern bathrooms keep the hotel squarely out of the realm of nostalgia. And on those rare rainy London days, the lounge offers an open fireplace and walnut bookshelves to provide a solid dose of indoor comfort rare in modern hospitality.
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In two hectares of private landscape, facing the bay of Porto-Vecchio on Corsica’s spectacular south coast, the Hotel Casa del Mar is a hotel of fine luxury and elegant leisure, heralding the start of a new jet-set era for the island. The hotel’s exceptional views of the Mediterranean are framed in clear-lined architectural forms that highlight the Hotel Casa del Mar’s priviledged location. This sleek simplicity is further underscored by the use of natural grey stone throughout the hotel, large red cedar terraces and contrasting, lively fabrics. The result is a hotel full of light, with an atmosphere of calm and ease. Wellness plays a major role at the Hôtel casadelmar, and their spa illustrates this. Four massage cabins, a hammam, gym and relaxation rooms are all available in an area dominated by wide vistas of the sea. A private beach, yacht mooring and heated outdoor infinity pool brings the Mediterranean even closer.
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The “New Asia” style of hospitality finds one of its most rarefied expressions in the New Majestic, located in the heart of Singapore’s Chinatown. An open-concept period-inspired lobby shows the imaginative possibilities of this marriage of old and new, or “heritage chic”, as the hotel calls its particular design savvy, which also takes into account its period furniture dating from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Individually designed rooms, 30 in all, continue the mix of vintage and designer furniture, customized baths, and can include private gardens and six-meter ceilings in attic-style suites. Five rooms have also been personalized by some of Singapore’s most influential talents from cinema, theatre and fashion. Every detail from bedding - the New Majestic calls it a ‘bedscape’ - to bathroom - freestanding copper tubs - has been re-imagined. Some rooms feature floor to ceiling mirrors; others feature aquarium-themed transparent bathrooms. Back downstairs, The Majestic Restaurant is a sleek reinterpretation of one of Singapore’s favourite Chinese dining rooms and serves modern Cantonese cuisine.
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