Recovered Typologies
26 November 2015
26 November 2015
Opened on March 1st, 2015, the Kameha Grand Zurich is already considered one of the best Swiss hotels for the high quality of services offered. Located in the commercial area Glattpark, just minutes from the airport and the centre of Zurich, the Kameha Grand celebrates the Swiss culture through the interiors designed by Marcel Wanders. The Dutch designer has reworked the symbols of the country, turning them into architectural elements or actual furniture.
So, chocolate bars change into upholstery and sliding doors, bells of grazing cows become maxi suspensions, bank vaults have been converted into original mini bars. Cosy, albeit a little over the top, the hotel offers standard rooms and a range of suites, including 11 mini apartments furnished according to themes. The restaurants, located inside the building, are also dreamlike, each of them serving a different cuisine. Playing with clichés in a sophisticated way, Wanders was able to create spaces with an ironic, and at the same time, domestic flavour, to experience Switzerland as though an unprecedented artistic dream.
WHERE: Dufaux-Strasse 1 / Corner Thurgauerstrasse, CH-8152 Glattpark / Zürich, Switzerland
Opened on March 1st, 2015, the Kameha Grand Zurich is already considered one of the best Swiss hotels for the high quality of services offered. Located in the commercial area Glattpark, just minutes from the airport and the centre of Zurich, the Kameha Grand celebrates the Swiss culture through the interiors designed by Marcel Wanders. The Dutch designer has reworked the symbols of the country, turning them into architectural elements or actual furniture.
So, chocolate bars change into upholstery and sliding doors, bells of grazing cows become maxi suspensions, bank vaults have been converted into original mini bars. Cosy, albeit a little over the top, the hotel offers standard rooms and a range of suites, including 11 mini apartments furnished according to themes. The restaurants, located inside the building, are also dreamlike, each of them serving a different cuisine. Playing with clichés in a sophisticated way, Wanders was able to create spaces with an ironic, and at the same time, domestic flavour, to experience Switzerland as though an unprecedented artistic dream.
The Moodboarders is a glance into the design world, which, in all of its facets, captures the extraordinary even within the routine. It is a measure of the times. It is an antenna sensitive enough to pick-up on budding trends, emerging talents and neglected aesthetics. Instead of essays, we use brief tales to tune into the rhythm of our world. We travelled for a year without stopping, and seeing as the memory of this journey has not faded, we have chosen to edit a printed copy. We eliminated anything episodic, ephemeral or fading, maintaining a variety of articles that flow, without losing the element of surprise, the events caught taking place, and the creations having just bloomed.