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Are You a Design Aficionado - even in Your Sleep?
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Radisson SAS Royal Hotel was created by the architect Arne Jacobsen whose 100th birthday was celebrated intensively during all of 2002. The architect created the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen as his "Gesamtwerk" - example of an all-encompassing design idea.
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Each of the hotel's 275 rooms bore evidence of the careful detailing in Arne Jacobsen's design. His artistic talent is still evident throughout the hotel, from the proportions of the building to the design of the interiors.
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Since its inauguration in 1960, the hotel has undergone several changes in style and decoration, but the hotel lobby with its curved staircase and several groups of the famous "Egg" and "Swan" chairs still lets out a calm and exclusice atmosphere, and the "Swan" is used in all rooms as well as the "Royal lamp". The 20th floor gourmet restaurant Alberto K is surrounded by genuine AJ design such as the "7" chairs, tablecloth and glasses, the AJ cutlery from 1957, which was used back in the 60's, and "Cylinda Line" designed by Arne Jacobsen for Stelton in 1964. Together, all these elements ensure that there is a clear line back to the hotel at the time of the inaguration.
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Room 606 is the only room in which the original decor has been maintained. The room is decorated in the original grey and blue-green colours. The room functions as an ordinary hotel room, and interested guest are much welcome to visit it, when not in use. The room is popular, but according to the hotel, not more so than it is available for overnight stays throughout the year. Radisson SAS Royal Hotel Hammerichsgade 1 DK-1611 København V Tel: 33426000 Fax: 33426100 E-mail: copenhagen@radissonsas.com
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Hotel Alexandra..... in Copenhagen is another example of a hotel which takes a keen interest in design and the use of it when making a home away from home for the guests staying in the hotel. The Brasserie, bar and café has Børge Mogensen sofas and Kaare Klint chairs, and original Akademi chande-liers created by the luminary of Danish lighting design Poul Henningsen. In the lobby, you can rest in the "Poet" sofas or the Pelican Chair by Finn Juhl, or curl up with a book in the cosy Mogensen Earclap armchairs in the Lounge. Even conferences in the bijou library downstairs will be conducted at a rare original Finn Juhl silver coin dining table surrounded by his Egyption chairs. But if you are a true design aficionado, make sure to check into one of the Hotel's new superior rooms that are shrines to five of Denmark's biggest names in furniture: Room 338, for instance, has been redecorated with the elegant dark wood furnitures by Finn Juhl, room 450 is decorated according to the simple yet refined design of Hans J. Wegner (famous for "The Chair" used by President Kennedy in a TV-duel with Nixon), room 448 is decorated in the suave style of Professor Ole Wanscher, and room 223 with Arne Jacobsen's iconic "Swan" and "Egg" leather upholstered chairs. The hotel plans to continue this trend of decorating rooms accor-ding to Danish Oldtimer Design, by using furniture by other famous designers such as Poul Kjærholm, Nanna Ditzel or even Verner Panton, though the latter might be a bit out of line with the hotel's classical image with his bright coloured plastic fantastic elements! Hotel Alexandra
H.C. Andersens Boulevard 8 DK-1553 København V Tel: 33744444 Fax: 33744488 E-mail: reservations@hotel-alexandra.dk |
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