04WAL: HOTELS OF THE WORLD

  • Hotel home exterior Hotel home exterior
  • Hotel home exterior
  • Reception lobby & 20th century glass collection
  • Eclectic retro lobby
  • Retro wall covering cocktail menu
  • Stairway and wall water feature towards spa zen patio
  • Bar
  • Room 9 wallpaper
  • Bar garden
  • Pool garden
  • Garden suite - lounge and bedroom
  • Garden suite – bed and pool
  • Green vase & 1968 palm-and-trellis vintage wall paper
  • Suite 11 - interior and lounge terrace
  • Suite 11 - interior and lounge terrace
  • Superior room
Argentina - Hotel Home

Programme 10

Overview

Its well-suited name alludes to a residential location on an otherwise nondescript street in an area popular with techy-media companies and loft-dwelling urbanites.

Owner

Hotel owners, London record producer Tom Rixton and Argentine Patricia O'Shea designed this hotel for 25 close friends planning to fly over for their wedding. Frustrated by the lack of suitable lodging in Palermo Viejo where Patricia grew up, the couple recognized a huge opportunity. They bought a furniture factory in an area newly dubbed Palermo Hollywood and created a ‘home away from home' with details their friends love. They convinced fellow record producer Flood (U2, Smashing Pumpkins) and bass player Nick Seymour to invest in a hotel, and from this union Home was born.

History

Hotel Home is a former furniture factory which became the first hotel in fashionable Palermo Hollywood when it opened in December 2005.

Features

Patricia O'Shea grew up in Palermo Viejo but lived in Ireland for 17 years. On returning to Buenos Aires she hired Argentine architect Rodrigo Cunill to help her create a hotel that plays with interior and exterior spaces and makes extensive use of glass, poured tan concrete and watambu wood from Paraguay. Rodrigo Cunill and his assistant architect Juana Grichener have built an intimate and stylish building that uses plenty of glass to make the most of the beautiful natural light of the Buenos Aires sun. They worked with materials such as cement, wood and glass combined with clever flourishes of colour in the form of vintage French wallpaper, wool rugs and innovative touches at every turn. The result is as charming as it is achingly cool.

 

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