{"id":29407,"date":"2015-11-15T16:53:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T15:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/?p=29407"},"modified":"2020-04-16T13:12:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T12:12:11","slug":"weekend-luxury-escapes-8-amazing-hotels-with-ultramodern-interiors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/weekend-luxury-escapes-8-amazing-hotels-with-ultramodern-interiors\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend luxury escapes: 8 amazing Hotels With Ultramodern Interiors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As more and more new-build boutique hotels go up around the world, it can be easy to forget the joy of staying in a hotel whose building has a storied and historic past. The pleasure of staying in some of luxury hotels of the world<\/strong><\/em> are the perfect choice for what BRABBU<\/strong> calls, \u201cweekend luxury escapes\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. Their cutting-edge design and interior will make you think twice about the\u00a0luxury lifestyle<\/strong><\/em><\/span>!<\/p>\n

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*London Edition<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the\u00a0best hotels in the world<\/strong>\u00a0is in London! Occupying a building originally formed by combining several 18th-century townhouses just north of the Soho neighbourhood, the two-year-old London Edition reinvents the century-old Berners Hotel as the sophomore outing from hotelier Ian Schrager\u2019s design-led partnership with Marriott.<\/p>\n

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George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg of Yabu Pushelberg, famous interior designers<\/strong> specialized in boutique hotels and hospitality projects, chose contemporary furnishings by the likes of Ingo Maurer for the hotel\u2019s ground-floor Edwardian public spaces, while reproductions of Old Master portraits in the otherwise minimalist bedrooms upstairs hint at the property\u2019s long history. If you\u2019re at London, this might be your perfect pick for \u201cluxury escapes\u201d.<\/p>\n

*Hotel Marignan, Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n

The grand fa\u00e7ade of this onetime townhouse\u2014built-in 1858 on a quiet block off the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es and expanded in the 1920s\u2014belies its of-the-moment interiors, masterminded by Pierre Yovanovitch, a current favourite of the French design cognoscenti.<\/p>\n

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Yovanovitch\u2019s 2012 redo of Hotel Marignan\u2014dotted with artworks collected by the hotel\u2019s owner\u2014sees its 50 rooms, lobby, bar, restaurant, and screening room outfitted with light oak floors and wall panelling and a mix of vintage and contemporary custom furnishings, many of his own design.<\/p>\n

*Conservatorium, Amsterdam<\/strong><\/p>\n

As its name suggests, this Amsterdam boutique hotel<\/strong> is a former music school, but it actually began life as the Rijkspostspaarbank (Dutch Savings Bank), which commissioned architect Daniel Knuttel to build the stone-and-brick neo-Gothic edifice near the city\u2019s Museumplein (Museum quarter) at the end of the 19th century.<\/p>\n

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Italian minimalist Piero Lissoni turned the conservatory into a 129-room hotel in 2011, the first of the Set\u2019s properties, all in equally historic buildings. A soaring glass atrium encloses the former courtyard, while shades of ivory, ecru, grey, and brown define the sleek rooms, which include furnishings from Kartell and Cassina.<\/p>\n

Related to:What to do in Amsterdam \u2013 7 museums of modern art in 7 days<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

*Das Stue, Berlin<\/strong><\/p>\n

The curving, neoclassical stone walls of Berlin\u2019s former Royal Dutch Embassy\u2014built in the 1930s by German architect Johann Emil Schaudt on the southern edge of the Tiergarten park\u2014became Das Stue in 2012. Spanish-born, Italy-based architect Patricia Urquiola designed the public spaces, while Potsdam-based architecture firm Axthelm Architekten conceived a new wing.<\/p>\n

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The hotel\u2019s 80 rooms and suites, as well as its bar, restaurants, and spa, share a bold and playful style, from the copper pots hanging above a long table in its Michelin-starred Mediterranean eatery to the leather animals that Urquiola placed amid furnishings of her own design, referencing the nearby zoo.<\/p>\n

Related to: Top 10 art galleries in Germany<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

*La Bandita Townhouse, Tuscany<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sitting on the main Corso in the picturesque medieval Tuscan hilltop town of Pienza\u2014famously featured in the films Gladiator<\/em> and The English Patient<\/em>\u2014La Bandita Townhouse\u2019s Renaissance-era building had served as a convent up until its current owners bought it just a few years ago.<\/p>\n

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Stripping the building back to its barest bones, architects Ernesto Bartolini and Arianna Pieri of Florence\u2019s DA Studio exposed richly textured stone walls and wood beams, turning nuns\u2019 quarters, a chapel, and even a top-floor laundry and gym into guest rooms outfitted with clean-lined custom furniture, vintage club chairs, and maps from local antiques shops.<\/p>\n

*Virgin Hotels, Chicago<\/strong><\/p>\n

For this ten-month-old hotel\u2014the first property of Virgin\u2019s new hotel brand\u2014Sir Richard Branson\u2019s in-house designers and Rockwell Group Europe took on the 26-story neoclassical Old Dearborn Bank Building, a historic landmark in the Windy City\u2019s Central Loop district that was built in 1928 by the architecture firm Rapp and Rapp.<\/p>\n

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Many of the public spaces\u2014including the Commons Club (shown), designed by Rockwell Group Europe\u2014feature newly uncovered original plaster ceilings. Meanwhile, Italian designer Paola Navone envisioned Cerise, the whimsical, brightly coloured rooftop bar.<\/p>\n

Related to: Best contemporary hotels \u2013 Virgin Hotel Chicago by Rockwell Group<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

*Downtown Mexico, Mexico city<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mexico City\u2019s Downtown Mexico, a three-year-old outfit from hip hotelier Grupo Habita, has a rather royal pedigree, situated within the stone-walled 18th-century Palacio de Los Condes de Miravalle (Palace of the Counts of Miravalle), the former home of one of the richest local families of the Spanish Colonial period.<\/p>\n

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The hotel\u2019s rooftop bar and pool terrace, as well as its breakfast loggia, feature bright pops of colour from low-slung seating, while the 17 rooms have a contemporary Zen feeling, their platform beds, simple desks, and room-dividing screens all done in pale wood.<\/p>\n

*The Waterhouse at South Bund, Shanghai<\/strong><\/p>\n

Designed as the Shanghai headquarters of the Japanese army, the rounded 1930s corner building that now contains Design Hotels\u2019 Waterhouse at South Bund has a very different purpose these days, its original three stories and new beaconlike top floor containing 19 loft-style rooms, a modern European restaurant, and lobby and rooftop bars.<\/p>\n

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Shanghai-based Neri & Hu Design and Research Office entirely transformed what had been little more than a concrete shell of a building, removing some dozen staircases to open the space up to expansive views and finishing it all off with simple wood furnishings and bright white linens.<\/p>\n

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