Last Minute in Europe
Small Luxury Hotels
If your last minute solution for the summer 2009 is a holiday of luxury and creativity, always in the framework of high profile hotellerie – obviously – the chain Small Luxury Hotels of The World allows to choose among some of its “artist hotels”.
Architectures recalling the great tradition of luxury hospitality or post-modern interior inspired to Pop Art, striking although original, can constitute an interesting solution for a holiday in Europe in the name of luxury and art.
Among the over 500 hotels of the Group, we point out few address in the most interesting cities of Europe.
Paris, Hotel Bellechasse –
www.slh.com/lebellechasse – It’s not just chance that it is located on the Rive Gauche, the artistic one, not far from the Musèe d’Orsay and from the Louvre. The exterior deceive the Nineteenth Century origins and convey to the Bellechasse hotel a severe look, but beyond the entrance door Christian Lacroix created a contemporary haute couture work of art, made of each of the 34 rooms turned by him into places for experiment.
Athens, Baby Grand Hotel –
www.slh.com/babygrandhotel – The Baby Grand has been inaugurated in 2004 and is the result of the creativity of 10 world wide famous artists, coming from the world of graphics, of graffiti and of underground art, who turned to usual spaces of the hotel into a high creativity world. An example? The desk in the conciergerie is made out of two vintage Mini.
London, The Goring - www.slh.com/goring – The oldest family run luxury hotel of London, since 1910 located in one of the most elegant and ‘british’ boroughs of London, Belgravia, entrusted the interior designer Nina Campbell with renewing the traditional style. In some rooms, small sheeps in soft white wool are a company for the most demanding guests.
Bonn, Galerie Design Hotel – www.slh.com/galeriedesign – That Germany is one of the motherlands of design and art, is something known. Besides Berlin, Bonn has its deisgn hotel, the Galerie, where everything, including the restaurant “Vernissage”, is in the name of works of art.
Poznan, Blow Up Hall - www.slh.com/blowuphall – Poland as well has its artist hotel. It’s the Blow Up Hall, the electronic art hotel with architecture rotating around the video installation “Blow Up” by the contemporary artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Hi-tech, art and music are the ingredients of this “full immersion” structure. One needs only say that when entering the hotel hall, the guests can see their image reflected in 2400 micro screens.
For booking: www.slh.com or calling 800.525.48000.
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Tags: Athens, Baby Grand Hotel, Belgravia, Blow Up Hall, Bonn, Christian Lacroix, Galerie Design Hotel, high profile hotellerie, Hotel Bellechasse, London, Louvre, Musèe d'Orsay, Nina Campbell, Paris, Poznan, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Rive Gauche, Small Luxury Hotels of The World, Summer 2009, The Goring
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