{Mondrian Hotel by Tom Dixon. Using a 1920s cruise liner as a visual reference for interiors for the
{Mondrian Hotel by Tom Dixon. Using a 1920s cruise liner as a visual reference for interiors for the hotel is fitting because it’s located in the Sea Containers House building on the South bank. Love how cheeky those elevators are! Sharing the suites shortly.} The naval background of the building, plus of the family funding the project, combined with the American brand coming to the UK gave our inspiration for the project to be conceived as an ocean liner. Throughout the interior design of the hotel there are references to the golden age of sea travel. There are also nods to the special Anglo-American relationship represented through juxtapositions of overtly American or British items, and wherever possible we play to the strength of each. Drawing on the theme of a transatlantic cruise liner for inspiration, Tom touched on the inspiration behind the hotel: ‘We thought that the transatlantic liners of the golden period of cruisers was a fitting departure point, we wanted the rooms to have a feeling of a cabin, with everything fitted, compact and properly thought through. We made a massive intervention to the arrival sequence with a massive structure inspired by a ship’s hull piercing through from the outside canopy into the lobby and right through past the elevators into the restaurant, all clad with copper.’ -- source link
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