A Hotel Of Stories
Top: HEIMAT Küche + Bar restaurant; Bottom: Cabin-style room at 25hours Hotel HafenCity in Hamburg, Germany.
Every hotel has stories to tell. In Hamburg, Germany, the new Design Hotel 25hours Hotel HafenCity already has 25 stories.
This modern, sailor club-styled hotel concept is based on 25 sailors’ stories discovered in a local seaman’s club.
Says Christoph Hoffmann, 25hours Hotel HafenCity CEO:
“It all began with the fictitious sailor Kuttel Daddeldu from the poems of Joachim Ringelnatz. He’s a good soul who’s deeply rooted in the seafaring life, but also coarse and a little cheeky. That’s exactly the character we wanted for the 25hours Hotel HafenCity.”
Storytelling lawyer Markus Stoll interviewed sailors in a seaman’s club in Hamburg every day for six weeks.
He took these first-hand accounts and adapted them into semi-fictional stories behind the hotel’s concept.
Each guest room has log books chronicling their lives, dreams and mottos.
Berlin artist Jindrich Novotny created illustrations of the sailors for guest rooms.
In the inner-city waterfront development HafenCity, the hotel is near the Elbe Philharmonic Hall, the cruise terminal and the International Maritime Museum.
25hours Hotel HafenCity features 170 cabin-style suites, a rooftop sauna, restaurant, bar, a Mare Kiosk, a Radio Room business center and meeting spaces.
The hotel’s green elements include:
- a meeting space housed in a repurposed shipping container;
- complimentary rentals of bikes and three MINIs;
- HEIMAT Küche + Bar restaurant featuring local ingredients and locally sourced coffee from the Hamburg roastery Elbgold;
- a lobby hemp carpet;
- vintage furniture including Brazilian pieces from the ’60s and Dutch industrial design and
- local designs by furniture maker Likoo.
In other Design Hotel news, the company has launched the website Made by Originals honoring the “driving forces and creative spirits” behind member hotels.
An online magazine, it features hoteliers, architects, designers and artists in the Design Hotels community.
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