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of boutique and design properties, we saw an opportunity to bring a certain level of product to Toronto. Step by step we have tweaked our vision for a vertical villa, a hotel that serves guests in the same way you would in your own home. By focusing on how people interact in a space, we’ve been able to take an organic approach towards the guest experience.” Having bought a small Adelaide Street plot in 1998, the co-owners embarked on a long and complicated development road, first persuading city planners that their unconventional art and design-led project had legs, then raising finance, before interrupting a five-year construction period to beef up their glass and zinc structure to accommodate new facilities, including a rooftop terrace. “The biggest challenge has been proving the viability of our proposition that art can meet commerce,” he adds. Packed into a tight footprint, the eight-


storey hotel is defined by a minimalistic aesthetic in which high-quality materials combine with custom-built furnishings conceived for each individual space. Maximising the lobby, a rosewood and bevelled glass front desk appears to be floating, freeing up room for guests and staff to move around reception without restriction. Grey porcelain tile flooring is complemented by sandblasted Bianca Carrara marble, which spills out onto the lobby patio, while laminated veneer millwork, polished 16 times, is a contemporary interpretation of traditional panelling. Both millwork and selected furnishings throughout the hotel are the result of an innovative partnership between rHed and its manufacturing partner, Poliform of Italy. Lobby seating is provided in the form of Aston Lounge chairs, which line a technilite wall installed the entire length of the lobby to double as an art gallery. Commissioned


OPPOSITE PAGE: A rosewood and bevelled glass front desk appears to float in the lobby, where seating is in the form of Jean-Marie Massaud’s Aston Lounge chairs for Italian manufacturer Arper BELOW: Guestrooms feature space-saving devices such as a streamlined walnut office desk designed by Del Terrelonge, and Poliform wardrobe systems containing customised minibars


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