New Hotel Rooms
All the guestrooms from the 1st to the 6th floor enjoy natural day light and are completely soundproof. With their floor to ceiling windows, and solid bamboo floors and tables, they are faithful to the Campana exploration of space. Equally breathtaking are the bathrooms, replicating the creative use of materials and spaces. Washbasins take the form of ‘fragmented rocks’, playing with the painstaking assemblage of favela shapes, a theme reproduced throughout the Hotel. Some washbasins can even be mistaken for sculptures, located as they are separately from the shower room. Fragmented, full-length, gold shaded mirrors complete and complement the overall arrangement, while unusual materials, a golden polyester wash base or a solid brass washbowl create an exciting surprise element. Floor to ceiling bamboo walls, wood natural colours and opaque glassed elements create a truly tranquil environment. Bathrooms are decadently stocked with Kiehl’s or Apivita toiletries.
Each of the 79 guestrooms and suites is, in reality, set up as a living art installation for guests to relax in and enjoy. They all present a poetic re-working of Greek popular tradition, which develops around three themes:
KARAGIOZIS, a mischievous but much loved character from Greek folklore. In their reworking for NEW, the old shadow figures are carved, covered with gold and mounted on the room walls like a moving fairytale. Four different stories have been displayed, each highlighting the character’s adventures, Karagiozis Doctor, Karagiozis Sailorman, Karagiozis’s Wedding, and Karagiozis Astronaut.
POSTCARDS of old Athens, a nod to retro tourism executed with a very modern design twist. Arranged haphazardly on the room walls, they are a reminder of the now lost custom of sending travel souvenirs, replaced today by short emails and snapshots taken with mobile phones. the EVIL EYE, a bead charm used to guard against ill omen and bad luck. The traditional form of ‘Evil Eye’ motifs is revisited on a psychedelic note with rear-lit LEDs that form a starry sky on guestroom walls.
Each of the 79 guestrooms and suites is, in reality, set up as a living art installation for guests to relax in and enjoy. They all present a poetic re-working of Greek popular tradition, which develops around three themes:
KARAGIOZIS, a mischievous but much loved character from Greek folklore. In their reworking for NEW, the old shadow figures are carved, covered with gold and mounted on the room walls like a moving fairytale. Four different stories have been displayed, each highlighting the character’s adventures, Karagiozis Doctor, Karagiozis Sailorman, Karagiozis’s Wedding, and Karagiozis Astronaut.
POSTCARDS of old Athens, a nod to retro tourism executed with a very modern design twist. Arranged haphazardly on the room walls, they are a reminder of the now lost custom of sending travel souvenirs, replaced today by short emails and snapshots taken with mobile phones. the EVIL EYE, a bead charm used to guard against ill omen and bad luck. The traditional form of ‘Evil Eye’ motifs is revisited on a psychedelic note with rear-lit LEDs that form a starry sky on guestroom walls.
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