A historical hotel

Adolph Wilhelm Krasnapolsky, the first owner of the hotel that bears his name, redefined the luxury hotel experience by establishing the minimum requirements of proper accommodation. In domestic terms, making the Krasnapolsky Grand Hotel become synonymous to luxury without ostentation.

Loss of the identity

After numerous expansions and reforms throughout its 150 years, it currently occupies eight buildings that meet 36.391 m². Each of the succeeding transformations displays the style of its time engendering a distinct environment and an incoherent personality losing completely the unique identity that characterized it.

The Krasnapolsky red

It has taken as reference, the dark brick facades characteristics that govern in the city of Amsterdam, the costumbrist painting by Vermeer or the “Red Krasnapolsky” which is mentioned in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, as well as the art-deco feel, which reigned in the hotel also described in his novel.

Room typologies

We designed two types of rooms and the presidential suite. One, with an island style centered bed, destined for the rooms located in the chamfer, and another type for the rest of the rooms in which there would be a headboard placed in the shape of an open folding screen that reminds us of Amsterdam´s large department store windows.

Game of contrasts

Through the combination of neutral colors, predominantly wood, beige limestone, and the black wood combined along with the red Krasnapolsky in its various shades, a set of extreme elegant contrasts is generated.

Access

The access door to the hotel occurs through a glass enclosure with a double mechanized door covered by a black colored canopy. It is further proposed revise the typography of the hotel sign.