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HOTEL REVIEW HABITA MTY HABITA MTY HOTEL REVIEW
THIS PAGE AND OPPOSITE: Guestrooms feature black walls, white washed ﬂoors, Arne Jacobsen Swan
chairs and sofas, Samsung ﬂatscreen TVs and sensuous, organic lighting by Serge Mouille
effect of the black walls, white-washed wood floors city. The hotel’s architect is Monterrey-based Agustin clever glass screen through which you can keep an
and white duvet-covered central futon-like bed on Landa and its interiors are the creation of Philippe eye on ‘the Sultan’, or the plasma screen TV, complete
its raised black wood base, is emphasised by the Starck protegée Joseph Dirand, who clearly references with iPod docking station. The bed platform provides a
internal corridor from which the room opens – with Monterrey’s unique topology and climatic extremes useful little shelf for bedside essentials, one of which
contrasting black walls and carpet. but introduces a little Parisian chic to soften the is provided in the shape of a cute Rodolfo Boneto
Both inside and out, from marketing literature to edges in the form of classic Arne Jacobsen Swan Sfericlock alarm clock.
door keys, Habita MTY pays homage to the cement, chairs and sofas, and sensuous, organic Serge Mouille As always, I completely forgot the instructions I
glass and steel industries to which Monterrey owes lighting throughout. was given upon being shown to my room about
its prosperity. Housed within a curvilinear tower Once over the snow blindness, the 39 guest rooms how to control not only the television but the
forming part of a new commercial centre with an and suites at Habita MTY are sleekly satisfying and air-conditioning and lighting and so the one little
array of sophisticated shopping options from Nokia clearly designed with the needs of the business hiccough in an otherwise intuitive design were the
to Mercedes Benz, the hotel is the first design option traveller in mind. In-room amenities include a well- frustrating few minutes it took to locate the controls
in a city dominated by the big-name hospitality proportioned desk-with-a-view and a luxurious stone for the washbasin taps. Thankfully the delicious
brands one expects to see in such business driven and onyx bathroom, divided from the bedroom by a Austrialian-import Aesop toilietries made the search
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