http://www.sleepermagazine.co.uk en Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:25 +0000 http://www.sleepermagazine.co.uk/checkout/543633/townhousestreet.html Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:51 +0000 http://www.sleepermagazine.co.uk/checkout/224667/hotel_missoni.html Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:17 +0000 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:]]> http://www.sleepermagazine.co.uk/checkout/208802/this_is.html Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:57 +0000
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.]]> http://www.sleepermagazine.co.uk/checkout/208793/buckets_of_fun.html Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:48 +0000
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.]]> http://www.sleepermagazine.co.uk/checkout/208796/one_whitehall_place.html Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:50 +0000
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.]]>