David Chipperfield, on the third floor, proposes a simple yet luxurious space where he combines handcrafted finishes, upholstered panels and white marble. Chipperfield creates a sensation of depth and surprise by paying painstaking attention to colours and lighting both in the lobby and hallways and in the rooms.
‘LG HI-MACS is so seamless and its luxuriouness gives the long table its elegance, yet it is at the same time so appropriate’.
Chipperfield used the opportunity of designing a floor at the Hotel to depart from the customary homogeneity found in hotel interiors. Instead, he achieves a minimal yet luxurious design. The ‘no frills’, straight lines and simplicity of Chipperfield’s designs for his Japanese-inspired twin and double bedrooms are rendered with a palette of restrained materials. The pared down aesthetic creates a consistent, aesthetically pleasing and extremely durable solution. Futon beds on sleeping platforms are topped by blue canopies. A luxurious landscape of black terracotta tiles wraps around the base of the room, stepping up and down to form the bed platform and plinth for the stereo, for instance. LG HI-MACS is used to create a long cantilevering table that runs through the bathrooms, forming a counter containing the washbasin, trays, wastepaper bins and footstools, and another slab is carved out to create a recess for seating. This series of essential elements is comfortably arranged so that each feels indivisible from the whole.
