Hotel Koe, Tokyo

Best Urban Hotels 2018 Our Judges Our Judges Jasmi Bonnén Jasmi Bonnén Beauty entrepreneur, Copenhagen Beauty entrepreneur, Copenhagen Aric Chen Aric Chen Design curator, Shanghai Design curator, Shanghai Natasha Jen Natasha Jen Designer, New York Designer, New York Cherine Magrabi Cherine Magrabi Creative director, Beirut Creative director, Beirut Fernanda Marques Fernanda Marques Architect, São Paulo Architect, São Paulo Makgati Molebatsi Makgati Molebatsi Art consultant, Johannesburg Art consultant, Johannesburg Best Of the rest Almanac, Barcelona Ace Hotel, Chicago Nobis, Copenhagen Mondrian Doha, Doha Bulgari Resort, Dubai Eden Locke, Edinburgh Puro, Gdańsk The Fontenay, Hamburg Macq 01, Hobart The Murray, Hong Kong Room Mate Emir, Istanbul Hallmark House Hotel, Johannesburg Verride Palácio Santa Catarina, Lisbon The Mandrake, London The Principal, London The NoMad, Los Angeles Hotel Monville, Montreal Roomers, Munich Freehand, New York Made, New York Moxy Times Square, New York Moxy Osaka Honmachi, Osaka Hôtel National des Arts et Métiers, Paris W Panama, Panama City The Hoxton, Paris Dream world Tribe Hotel, Perth Fera Palace Hotel, Salvador The Middle House, Shanghai The Sukhothai, Shanghai Andaz, Singapore Six Senses Duxton, Singapore Paramount House Hotel, Sydney The Vera, Tel Aviv this year’s best urban hotel, a fantastically furnished sicilian palazzo, plus three runners-up, as voted for by our jet-setting judging panel Asmundo di Gisira Catania The Broadview, Toronto Hotel Indigo, Warsaw Like many palazzi, Asmundo di Gisira, a converted 18th-century pile in Sicily’s second largest city, hides its true beauty within. The hotel interiors take their the public space celebrates the myth of Billonia, with a painting of the goddess by Sergio Fiorentino; an enormous flamingo sculpture by Domenico Pellegrino references from above left, cement tiles in the covered courtyard; a ceramic crocodile and Gaetano Pesce’s 1969 UP-7 foot sculPture in the uzeta room; the sPrinG-themed inspiration from Sicilian legends, referenced the birds that used to inhabit the fountain with a contemporary design language by GUM, a local studio that spent seven years restoring the 400 sq m compound located just steps away from Catania’s landmark Fontana dell’Elefante. Original elements such as decorative ceilings and mouldings were retained, while a new skylight turns a courtyard into an atrium, and ensuite bathrooms focus on comfort. Unique touches come courtesy of Sicilian artists: at Catania’s Giardino Vincenzo Bellini; and the Proserpina suite, one of six generously sized guest rooms, features a granary-shaped bed, and hand-painted tiles by local ceramist Alessandro Iudici. With handpicked Italian furnishings from the 1930s to the 1960s rounding off the design, the palazzo offers suite dreams indeed. Yoko Choy ProserPina room, featurinG a GranaryinsPired bed and a ceilinG fresco dePictinG the myth of PersePhone Via Gisira 40, tel: 39.09 5097 8894, asmundodigisira.com. Rates: from €120 080 ∑Best Urban Hotels 2018 aHôtel de Crillon Paris Four years, 17,600 gold scales, 40 different types of marble, minerals, feathers, mirrors, glass and gilding are just some of what went into creating the newly buffed and polished Hôtel de Crillon on Paris’ Place de la Concorde. For all its impressive history, which dates back to 1758, the property, from Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, wears its heritage lightly, layered with 21st-century Parisian chic and a real sense of place. Ten Signature Suites, including two by Karl Lagerfeld, offer individual takes on opulence, while the remaining 114 rooms and suites feature muted tones and grey marble bathrooms. Nespresso machines are clad in leather, beds in the softest linens, and desks are stacked with books on Paris. Fine dining restaurant L’Ecrin is not to be missed, for its Champignon de Paris dish alone, but try too the Ile Callot oysters in the Brasserie d’Aumont, and the Paris Mule cocktails in the glitzy yet cool toP, the hotel’s Gilded les ambassadeurs bar, revamPed by chahan minassian with velvet armchairs and tables inlaid with Precious metals and crystals above, dutch desiGner sebastian brajkovic’s 2015 ’vanishinG Point iii’ bench draws the eye at the toP of the hotel’s restored Grand staircase Les Ambassadeurs Bar. Revive in the pool and at the sensational spa with products that pamper, Parisian style. Mary Lussiana 10 Place de la Concorde, tel: 33.1 44 71 15 00, rosewoodhotels.com. Rates: from €1,110 ∑ 083 Best Urban Hotels 2018 aHotel Sanders Copenhagen Former Danish Royal Ballet dancer and third-generation hotelier Alexander Kølpin has transformed an art nouveau building across the road from his former workplace, the Royal Danish Theatre, into a supremely elegant 54-room hotel. His attention to detail his apparent throughout the property, from the staff uniforms, made by Parisian label Older using a sustainable technical fabric, to the surprisingly un-Scandinavian, eclectic interiors by London-based studio Lind + Almond. With its restaurant serving up casual fare in a relaxed setting, cosy vintage bar and rooftop conservatory, Hotel Sanders has become a new social hub for Copenhagen. Micha van Dinther Tordenskjoldsgade 15, hotelsanders.com. Rates: from DKK2,895 (€390) Hotel Koé Tokyo Located among the blaring neons and packed ‘X’ crossings of Shibuya, Hotel Koé is no conventional property. Managed by Japanese fashion retailer Stripe soundtrack. But it is the ten teahousethemed, super-minimal guest rooms that really turn heads, with their serene expanses of charcoal grey walls and night-sky blue carpets. Other highlights include a lounge with a sleek bar stretching the length of the space, and a small VIP area dominated by two paintings by Yoshitomo Nara and toP, a couPé room at hotel sanders, its desiGn insPired by luxury train cabins above, hotel koé’s xl room, a 100 sq m sPace that nods to jaPanese teahouses International (the building’s first floor is home to the company’s flagship store) and designed by local studio Suppose Design Office, it is accessed through a light-filled ground floor, where an open-plan restaurant Hiroshi Sugita. Danielle Demetriou and bakery serves up dishes such as pink 3-7 Udagawacho, Shibuya-ku, hotelkoe.com. Rates: from £240 eg and ramen noodles to a DJ-curated 084 ∑

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