RECEPTION
Front Desk Welcome As I write this I am about to board a plane for
Berlin, where this time last year we launched our inaugural Sleepover event. We are currently gearing up for the next Sleepover which takes place in Amsterdam from April 21-22.
COVER STORY: The Bluespoon restaurant at Andaz Amsterdam features custom handcrafted wooden panels embossed with carved animal heads. Furniture includes Marcel Wanders’ Monster chairs for Moooi, and his Venus chairs for Poliform.
Our Berlin adventure saw a group of 100 hotel innovators – owners, operators, designers, architects, consultants and suppliers – trekking around Berlin in a convoy of Trabants, the two-stroke cars that are a potent symbol of cold war East Germany, before enjoying dinner and overnight stay at the funky Michelberger hotel. The next day, we took our guests to look around some other new hotels, including an exclusive pre-opening tour of Das Stue – Patricia Urquiola’s conversion of the former Danish embassy, which is now complete and has been reviewed in this issue. This time around, there will be 150 of us, travelling around the waterways of Amsterdam by boat, bus and bike. Guests have a choice of accommodation – CitizenM, which remains for me the most innovative new hotel concept of the past decade; Conservatorium, whose owners Alrov have just relaunched London’s Café Royal, to be reviewed in the next edition of Sleeper; or the hotel featured in this month’s cover story, Andaz. We’ll be checking out the rooftop bar of the newly branded Doubletree by Hilton (formerly Mint Hotel) before setting sail to a secret waterside destination for dinner. There is an enhanced programme of tours, including a canal cruise hosted by Amsterdam’s Hotel Development Intermediary unit, looking at sites earmarked for new hotel projects. The event is rounded off with another exclusive hard hat tour, this time of the forthcoming Waldorf Astoria. Finally, we are delighted that Marcel Wanders, the designer and co-owner of the aforementioned Andaz, will be giving our guests an insight into Amsterdam’s creative history with a talk at the Moooi showroom. We have a limited number of places left at this exclusive event. If you are actively involved in new hotel projects and would like to climb aboard before we up anchor, please email
shipping@sleepoveramsterdam.com or visit
www.sleepoveramsterdam.com
Matt Turner - Editor
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