HOTEL REVIEW


LEFT: Guestrooms are simply decorated with beds by HotelClinic, Mayday lamps by Konstantin Grcic for Flos, Tauari wood flooring and Philips flatscreen TVs. Unusually, bathrooms are located at the windows, with bedrooms behind


to front’. The bathroom is pushed to the totally glazed façade of the building doing away with the typical ‘corridor’ entrance to leave a much better proportioned area for the comfortable ‘Hotel Clinic’ bed. Those frankly awkward attempts to ‘drag’ natural light through to the bathroom are thus avoided. And while the street view basin-side is unremarkable, guests can still take a look as they brush their teeth.


Which leads to the issue of privacy.


Internally, the whole bathroom area including the separate WC can be screened from the bedroom with a ‘bambalinas’ or curtain. To the exterior the glass of the window below the counter height shelf / basin-surround is effectively screened with horizontal etched stripes. The broad window above can be closed by a curtain printed with the room’s


number. The etching on the wall-to-ceiling window in the shower proved insufficient at night given the recessed lamp at waist height within the shower, so an additional sandblasted screen was added which has been hinged to allow for cleaning. Total blackout is achieved via externally mounted and electrically controlled blinds at both windows. The bathroom’s counter height shelf made from a composite grey stone provides ample space for guests’ toiletries. The hotel’s Rituals amenities are provided, unbranded, in Muji dispensers. A freestanding magnifying mirror and hinged mirror at the basin together with the natural daylight are perfect for making up / shaving. By night, sufficient diffused light comes from the partially recessed Zeffiro ceiling lamp by Artemide, comprising a pair of curvaceous opalised sails.


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The guestroom interiors feature


unvarnished Tauari wood floors, which complement the dark grey bathroom tiling and deep red wallpaper by Dutch firm Vescom. Wall-mounted Tolmeo anglepoise- style lamps, also by Artemide, leave space on the wooden bedside tables for a Logitech iPod dock and an old fashioned pushbutton telephone, a retro reference that is also picked up in the Bakelite-style light switches. In addition to the hanging space of the open cupboard in the bathroom, the wall opposite the bed has a long strip of brushed aluminium coathooks. From these hang the hotel directory, folded over a wire coat hanger, and a Mayday lamp by Konstantin Grcic for Flos. With the cable for the Philips flatscreen also running across the surface of the wall such utilitarian touches are typical of the


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