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Ku’Damm 101 Hotel, Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany ***

Posted in Europe, Germany, Hotel on Jul 21st, 2010

When will the nurses and doctors arrive? Rooms at the Ku’Damm 101 are sterile to say the least.

Works better here: In the bathrooms you don’t mind the clean and rather antiseptic design.

Tell me, honestly, straight from the heart; how modern does this look to you?

From the outside it looks very much like a car rental […]

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Hotel Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden **

Posted in Europe, Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden on Jul 12th, 2010

Claesson Koivisto Rune designed the interior at Hotel Skeppsholmen.
This is room #170. The theme for colours and materials: “Fog”. Well, OK.

The bathroom in #170. Quite large. Quite nice. It’s also quite unpractical.
Truth: As soon as you’ll get a tiny bit of water on the floor it looks messy.

What if we didn’t use a regular sink? […]

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Berns Asiatiska, Stockholm, Sweden ***

Posted in Europe, Restaurant, Stockholm, Sweden on Jan 3rd, 2010

Visible through the entrance of Berns Asiatiska: Berzelii Park.

Berns opened its doors August 1, 1863, (big ups to architect Johan Fredrik Åbom).
If created today, those mega-sized chandeliers wouldn’t survive the focus groups.

The next time I’ll bring a food stylist. This mess is my first round at the Sunday
brunch at Berns Asiatiska. In the lower […]

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Gild Hall, Financial District, Manhattan, New York City, NY ***

Posted in Hotel, New York, USA on Dec 5th, 2009

What do you do if you are building a hotel and Jim Walrod wants leather
headboards? My guess is that you buy 126 leather headboards and smile.

Let’s take a long, hot Financial District-shower, shall we?

This is what happens if you walk into a store where they
are specialized in antler chandeliers and they have a sale…

The little […]

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Thompson LES, Lower East Side, New York City ***

Posted in Hotel, New York, USA on Nov 26th, 2009

Bed, bathroom, balcony… If you want what you see, then request room #1400.

A nice, nightly Manhattan view from the balcony, looking north.

The first floor with concierge, bar and Asian restaurant Shang.
Is it a new approach to service?
Strangely enough, I was not greeted by an enthusiastic bellboy on arrival. Check-in was rather swift but it wasn’t […]

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