Belgian designer Axel Vervoordt has designed resort suites previously (see On Top of the World: A Belgian Antiquarian Designs a Penthouse in NYC), however his first top-to-bottom hospitality venture is the Purs Hotel, situated in a Seventeenth-century, gable-roofed former chancellery constructing, overlooking the Rhine, in Andernach, Germany.
Right here’s a glance:
Above: The designers preserved the buildings’ unique parts, together with the slate roofs and the grand-scaled home windows. Above: The foyer is outfitted with Vervoordt’s much-admired (and copied) elegantly detailed sofas and lounge chairs. Above: The eating room of the Michelin-starred Purs restaurant, presided over by Christian Eckhardt, is appropriately moody and romantic. Above: An under-the-eaves room with linen upholstered lounge chairs and couch. Above: A quiet nook that includes Vervoordt’s signature mixture of distressed antiques and sleeker new items. Above: A view right into a visitor suite; Vervoordt labored with grasp painter Werner Fraters on the floor finishes on view all through the resort. Above: A visitor suite rendered in calming colours. Above: A view into an ensuite tub. Above: An ensuite rest room with soaking tub and built-in window seat.
