HOTEL REVIEW
ABOVE: The Emiko bar and restaurant feature pale maple furniture, rice paper lampshades and
sliding screens in keeping with the Japanese cuisine ABOVE RIGHT: Seating in the restaurant is
upholstered in subtle grey-green fabric
and leather details. The solidity of the The Emiko restaurant is furnished with
brass guestroom door handles manufactured pale maple furniture motivated by its Japanese
by FSB are a case in point. Hild have chosen associations; wide and deep one-armed chairs
materials that due to their very quality, will with grey-green crushed velvet cushions can
age well and develop a more interesting patina be set together in a banquette style. The inlay
over time. Guestroom colour schemes of of the angular furniture has something of
grey green tones reference the multiplicity of a Biedermeier touch; wall inlays of padded
awnings and weathered copper roofs of the horsehair fabric are beautiful sound absorbers.
stalls in the market. “In Japan the food itself shines and the
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The public spaces of the hotel are lighting is subdued,” explains Hild of a
organised around the only possible site for lighting composition that combines both
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the kitchens. From the check-in desks, guests indirect and direct lighting for a Western
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can immediately see across a lounge, through audience. Large, square lampshades of Munich, Germany
the restaurant to the windows overlooking stitched rice-paper-effect material are matched
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market. The bar occupies a somewhat difficult with discrete downlighters. In a space with an
thoroughfare to the lifts. Effectively the lounge already low ceiling, these protrude no further
and its open fireplace are the place to be, with than a service track hidden by fine rattan
„ 72 guestrooms
the bar used more as a dispensing area than weave.
‰ Emiko Japanese Restaurant
a seating zone. “We are observing how this “I am pleased with the quiet design of the  Emiko Bar, Lounge bar and terrace
area works in practice and like all our other hotel,” confides Rudi Kull, “it has a strong
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concepts we are not static in our approach,” concept yet is respectful of the customer. The
+ Rooftop terrace, 100m
2
event space
explains Kull. A flexibility that saw the customer is our star, not the designer. The
Architects & Designers: Hild und K
replacement of a complete, high dividing unit, haptic sensations within the hotel provide a
Operator: Kull & Weinzierl GmbH & Co. KG
seen during an earlier construction site tour, depth to the experience, an experience that is
with a lower, more open one. “The original both near and yet also far away from the buzz
looked alright on the plan but just didn’t work of Munich.”
and needed to be changed,” states Hild.
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