Rooms
We designed two types of rooms. 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.
The result of the experience translates into an environment of high quality and comfort with contemporary language. Its colors and proportions transfer to the interior of the hotel and its atmosphere, which is so typical of the city of Amsterdam.
Enacting upon an environment of neutral colors (wood and beige limestone) that contrasts the black wood, of the proper city, combined with the red Krasnapolsky with different nuances.
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.
The memory of the building itself is told through historical photographs and the Delphi pottery used in the doors of the rooms, designed by the team of Ramon Esteve Studio.
Undeveloped Proposal
The proposal for the lobby, reception, and the attached spaces suggests the usage of current photos by Hendrik Kerstens in whose work reinterprets the Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century in an interesting dialog between past, present and future. The photographs are arranged on suspended ceilings in a form of cupolas decorated and backlit, looking for that one classical element of origin to provide a resource of modern design, giving personality and character to the set of spaces.
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.
Working With the Intangible Matter
The lighting is mostly integrated into the architecture accompanied by a set of geometric light fixtures that provide ambient light.
Concept Design
Ramón Esteve
Design Development
D/Dock
Collaborators
Silvia Martínez
Jochem Straatman
Isabel Meyer
Tudi Soriano
Estefanía Pérez
Flavio Veras
Lily Lee
Svenja Stepputtis
María Martí
Víctor Ruiz
Anna Boscà
Nacho Poveda
Laura Álvarez
Thomas van Leeuwen
Laura Cano
Camila Arias
Client
NH Hoteles
AXA Real Estate Investment Managers
