Posted in Denmark, Europe, Hotel on Dec 9th, 2008
Built in 1933. Architect: Vilhelm Lauritzen. Now listed and protected.
The former Daells department store building has become a hotel.
Quite modern, quite nice but at the same time quite… ordinary.
Room 512 was like the rest of the hotel; functional but not overly cosy.
The single most photographed detail of the Skt Petri hotel also doubles as a […]
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It doesn’t look like your ordinary boutique hotel. It doesn’t even look like a hotel.
Room 12 is located at the very end of the Eastern Wing at the Nimb. And it has a fireplace!
Personal hygiene, room 12 style. Not visible in this picture: The bathtub.
The Nimb, Bernstorffsgade 5. On the other side of the street […]
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Posted in Denmark, Europe, Hotel on Aug 19th, 2008
They called it the punch card tower. It was the first skyscraper in Denmark and the sign of things to come. The exterior, as well as everything inside, was designed by Arne Jacobsen.
The lobby will give you a little bit of Jacobsen modernism. The iconic Swan
chairs were designed for the hotel in 1958. They are […]
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Posted in Denmark, Europe, Hotel on Jul 2nd, 2008
You will still use a door to enter the place that refers to iself
as “the world’s most exciting and creative lifestyle hotel”.
It they didn’t try so gosh darn hard to be special, it would sound like a rathe nice idea.
The idea is pretty interesting:
In April 2005 this hotel opened as a part in the launch […]
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Posted in Denmark, Europe, Hotel on Apr 17th, 2008
Uncool Danish names…
The Danes have got one or tow things to learn when it comes to naming restaurants. If ‘Riz-Raz’, ‘Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus’ or ‘Café Ketchup’ are your options, then you bloody well know that you have landed in Copenhagen. This is no joke. Even the names of Swedish hairdressing salons with their witty […]
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