HOTEL REVIEW
Oana Rosen has created dark sexy
interiors with a feminine touch for
Frankfurt’s Roomers hotel, crowned
by a unique Biorhythm spa designed
by Nik Schweiger.
Roomers
Frankfurt
Words: Guy Dittrich Photography: Courtesy of Gekko Management
wanted to create a sexy magnetism bought in Ibiza, is lit by the lobby fireplace. Gerbermühle (Sleeper May/June 2009). Her
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to the hotel that would appeal to This pattern is also repeated in the sheet work includes a fabulous bar and separate
both men and women,” says interior of marble recessed in the shallow basins in restaurant that both access the large, open
designer, Romanian-born Oana Rosen the suites. The reinforced sheet, made by rear courtyard. The courtyard includes
of her designs for Roomers hotel in Frankfurt. Ströffmann, lifts out for easy cleaning but a lengthy sweep of concrete bench that
“Something strong but also with a cosy and makes washing possible only using a running incorporates planters, a double water feature
cocooning warmth.” The lobby combines tap. Regular rooms have black glass bowl in zinc by Rita Jordens of Belgium, boxy
both hard surfaces – the mirror-finished metal basins. The guestrooms’ dark maroon walls Barcode furniture from Bangkok-based Ken
reception desk and low tables from Megaron and black casegoods are matched by dark Koon, and other Thai-sourced steel seating.
of Turkey – with softer elements such as stone bathrooms – the marble floor slab in the In the restaurant Rosen dealt with the
smoky silk drapes, luxurious hide upholstery separate showers has been etched in a series low ceiling of this former retail bank by
and a long purple velvet banquette of Rosen’s of ever lower concentric steps that provide incorporating indirectly lit recessed ceiling
own design. Enclosing swan-shaped chairs a fabulous non-slip surface. Sanitaryware is artworks by Carsten Witte, one of which runs
in silver-sheen velvet by decadent Italian from Ross Lovegrove’s Istanbul collection the length of an intricately carved high-level
designer Cavalli sit beneath suspended crystal for Vitra, whose curvaceous forms are communal table from DK Home. Stools, also
chandeliers, also by Cavalli. In the restaurant, continued with the Rosen-designed chaise from DK Home, were adapted with longer
pleated lampshades decorate the chandeliers longue in front of the curved window of the legs to match the table height. Warm beige
by JNL of France, highly decorative corner suites that arcs up to become the desk. and grey velvet banquettes and regular seating
detailing surrounds Venetian mirrors and the Rosen’s furniture and the casework, including provide ample alternatives.
suspended pendulum chairs at the entrance swivelling TVs incorporated into the dividing In the 24Hours Bar, mixologists take centre
are examples of her feminine touch. screens of some rooms, was produced locally stage in an island comprising levels of glossy
Adjacent to an open fireplace in the lobby, by Kansy Objekt Design. Use of the Zumtobel black bands topped by a counter and two
there are padded wall panels upholstered guestroom lighting system is intuitive. glowing boxes of crushed ice for the display of
in a high-sheen burnished gold fabric. The “Roomers has 117 rooms and so I had the champagne bottles.
patterning and gold are repeated in corridor chance to include everything in the hotel,” In the ceiling surrounding the bar, a ring
lampshades, the guestroom headboards and explains Rosen, relishing the opportunity to of dangling black Perspex strips diffuse the
divan bases. The intertwined pattern of the do a bigger hotel project than her previous indirect lighting reflected from a gold recess.
hotel’s logo, inspired by a broach Rosen work on The Pure (Sleeper Spring 2006) and Flush-mounted floor LEDs highlight
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