Ardi Goldman, Christoph Hoffmann, Stephan Gerhard and Kai Hollmann
Thief’, tells of her revelation and is decorated with sheep. Recent projects have seen the opening of a 25hotel set in Hamburg’s HafenCity and another opening in Vienna in two phases over the spring of 2011 and the autumn of 2012. The Hamburg hotel is inspired by the maritime history of the site with 25 personal chronicles collected by author Markus Stoll, gathered in a “ship logbook” that is found in each of the 170 rooms. Photographs from the collection of Nikolaus Gelpke, founder of the acclaimed sea-themed magazine mare, grace the gallery’s walls. Film-set designer Conni Kotte, known for her ‘rooms with character’, scoured f lea markets for the vintage furniture and naval accessories to complement the re- imagined sea chests that grace each room and serve as a desk and a minibar. The beds are designed as sleeping ber ths, the book shelves are built in classic rope-ladder-style, and the rooms’ bespoke wallpaper is illustrated with adaptations of seafarer tattoo ar t. The hotel is also inspired by nor thern German novelist Joachim Ringelnatz’s 1920 classic Kuttel Daddeldu, a funny and ironic collection of verse about an anarchic sailor
living within the harbour’s underbelly. The ground-f loor lobby, restaurant, mare kiosk, Two Wheels Good bicycle shop, and bar recreate a rough world reminiscent of Ringelnatz’s harbour. The other much-anticipated project 25hours Hotel Wein is located in the hear t of Vienna’s ar tistic 7th District, and here too imagination, fantasy and perhaps just a touch of madness reign supreme. The design is inspired by the golden age of the circus, which peaked at the beginning of the 20th century and was a mainstay in Vienna. The hotel incorporates with mesmerising effect, memorabilia from the city’s three permanent circus buildings, as well as treasures from the Empress of Austria’s own circus. Every hotel in 25hours springs from a healthy amount of chance, luck, and gut instinct. Christoph Hoffman sums it up nicely: “There are ideas in life that are just solid. When you have such an idea and you honour it and rise to the occasion by matching it with the right ingredients, you don’t have to worry too much about the realisation. You just have to go for it.”
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