HOTEL URBAN
| Address | Carrera de San Jerónimo 34; 28014 Madrid |
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| Neighbourhood | Huertas | See on map |
| Metro | Sevilla [L2] |
| Telephone | +34 91 787 7770 |
| Website | http://www.derbyhotels.com |
| Price | From EUR 300 | Check availability |
Just reading this glam style maven’s statement of purpose is enough to make you want to tear off your clothes and run gleefully around the rooftop pool – “made for pleasure seekers who shy away from conventionality, where the established rules do not exist.” Presumably the reference has less to do with streaking than the interiors, which seamlessly blend the kind of industrial minimalism favoured by so many modern hotels with owner Jordi Clos’ collection of archaeological art. There’s a permanent display of Egyptian artwork in the basement, whilst Hindu and Chinese pieces are dotted around the property, including guest rooms, with explanatory notes. All this, without any of the sterility or pompousness of an actual museum, has made Urban Madrid’s design hotel of reference where the local style set like to hobnob, too. The luminous lighting effects might have something to do with it, or perhaps it’s the super popular Glass Bar, putting to shame any notions of museum cafeterias and plastic trays.
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Splendia
With a swimming pool open to the sky, a moonlit restaurant, and a spectacular patio facing the heart of the city, the Hotel Urban. A hotel that boasts an extraordinary collection of art and luxurious service. The Hotel urban mixes Zimbabwean black stone with the most pure Italian alabaster. The interiors combine black wood and leather and gold walls with the exquisite works of art. A hotel with strength and individual style where every corner is different and where art and design are continuously present.
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Tablet Hotels
18.0 of 20. Owner Jordi Clos is not just a successful hotelier but a noted art collector as well, and the head of an archaeological society whose collection the Urban was designed to display. A basement gallery houses a permanent collection of ancient Egyptian artworks, and the guest rooms are furnished with antique Hindu and Chinese pieces, complete with explanatory notes in the manner of a museum program. The result is a engaging: while many “design hotels” resemble nothing so much as art galleries, with their blank white walls and minimalistic furnishings, the art is conspicuously absent. The Urban, in contrast, is a rich and welcoming space, and the art-museum trappings don’t even begin to introduce a note of sterility or emptiness.
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