HOTEL REVIEW


Interior designers Marcel Bequillard and Paul Brigido of MBID have taken inspiration from the Ballet Russe for the design of Moscow’s latest luxury hotel.


Renaissance Monarch Centre Moscow


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perated under a franchise agreement with Interstate Hotels & Resorts, The Renaissance Monarch Centre Hotel is one of


Moscow’s largest conference and convention facilities, and the 24th Renaissance in Europe. It forms part of a newly built mixed-use complex in the commercial / business district of Moscow, close to the ExpoCentre and the Hippodrome, and is conveniently located close to new developments in Moscow City such as the Federation Towers and Sheremetyevo Airport. In addition to the hotel, the Monarch Centre comprises a three storey shopping mall, as well as a 30+ storey office tower. Interior designer Marcel Bequillard of MBID has taken his inspiration for the design of the hotel from the Ballet Russe, first introduced in Paris in the 1920’s, and known for its artistic costumes, designed by the likes of Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso. Inspiration was also taken from the movement of dance and motion, as seen in the fluid patterns used


for the hotel’s interior architecture, custom lighting, carpets, textiles and artwork. Finishes of Macassar ebony, gold leaf, and other exotic woods are inspired by Parisian interiors of the 1920s.


Guests entering the lobby will begin to experience these curves and lines of movement in the ceiling coves, as well as the design of the reception pods and their shimmering background. A seating grouping sits in front of a double height, colour changing LED crystal curtain backed with gold and silver glass mosaic to create the feeling of a stage curtain, behind which a performance is about to begin. The hotel’s two restaurants are located at


ground level. ‘Mozaic’ offers all-day dining and a breakfast buffet, whilst specialty restaurant ‘Premier’ offers a concept based on the combination of European and Asian culinary traditions, offers a blend and fusion of the cultures and culinary specialties of the cities along this route from Venice to China.


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The design of ‘Mozaic’ is vibrant and cheerful yet creates a sophisticated space that absorbs different moods and feelings of the different times of the day. The carpet uses bright colors and curves again reflecting the influence of the Ballet Russe. The buffet room is surrounded by shimmering glass mosaics in rich red/ orange and amber tones, also picked up in the bubbles design of the central custom designed light fixture. The dining chairs are in an Art Deco style, alongside dining tables enriched with wood inlay patterns at the top. Wood and frosted glass doors to the buffet room are backlit in the evenings to create the effect of a backlit wall.


In the Premier restaurant, the design carries the influences of the many different cultures along the route, from Venetian style lighting, to the Persian style gold and wood open screens, the abstract Chinese cloud design of the carpet or the Italian glass mosaics of the open kitchen. Tabletops are inlaid with embossed leather with geometric patterns.


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