Hotel Missoni
The Rezidor Hotel Group’s passion for fashion

Pictured here is one of the first sample room shots of The Rezidor Hotel Group’s long awaited Hotel Missoni.
The concept has been spearheaded by Rosita Missoni – co-founder of the Missoni fashion label and Creative Director for Hotel Missoni – and Rezidor’s Executive Vice-President of Brands, Gordon McKinnon. The first two hotels – one in Edinburgh, one in Kuwait City – are due to open later this year. As we went to press on this issue, Rezidor announced that the third will open in Jebel Sifah, Oman in 2012. In the meantime you can get a taste of the designs for the new hotels on the Hotel Missoni website: more...

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The Rough Luxe Hotel

This is modern art, so we will leave you to make your own judgement. Situated in the basement of the Rough Luxe hotel, the ‘Anagrammatic Looking Glass Mirror’ pictured here is a mixed-media piece on perspex by English-Romany artist Daniel Baker.

It is just one of many modern artworks and design pieces personally selected for the hotel by designer and gallery curator Rabih Hage. The plaster chandelier with orange shades above is by Patrice Gruffaz. Other significant works include trompe l’oeil images of various Italian palazzo by Massimo Listri, Susan Shup’s “Over Here” oil-on-canvas, and a photographic portrait of Gilbert & George by Jonathan Root. more...

Buckets of Fun
Superbude, Hamburg

We’re not sure if these buckets, suspended from the exterior of the new Superbude in Hamburg serve any purpose, and frankly we don’t care. They are just one of many witty design flourishes introduced by designer Armin Fischer of 3Meta for hotelier Kai Hollman’s innovative combination of hostel and hotel.

The brief was a loose one, to “utilise objects and materials typical for Hamburg but implement them in new ways and re-assign their functions.” Hence beer crates from a local brewery have been upholstered with genuine leather and transformed into stools. Pallets serve as frames for the couches, vases are made out of wine bottles, and paper cups are transformed into chandeliers. more...

One Whitehall Place
The Royal Horseguards Hotel

Apparently the chaps pictured here in the hard hats are builders rather than Treasury officials protecting themselves from the imminent collapse of the economy. The builders were onsite to begin a £16m renovation of The Royal Horseguards hotel.

But at the time the photo was taken, the hotel’s 280 guestrooms had been block-booked by the Treasury for officials involved in talks between the major banks and the Chancellor Alistair Darling. The talks resulted in a multi-billion pound bailout of British banks, subsequently heralded as having averted a meltdown of the financial markets. more...