Wednesday, October 31, 2012

FOOD & WINE: Putting Georgian Wine on the Map (eurasianet.org)

The indispensable Hvino News website has just released a superb resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the rapidly improving Georgian wine scene, a detailed "appellations" map for Georgia's wine-growing regions. Mapping out eighteen distinct regions, from Akhasheni to Vazisubani, the map also provides detailed notes on each region's geographical characteristics and descriptions of the types of grapes grown there. Curious to know more about the Goruli Mtsvane white wine grown in the Ateni region near Gori? Check out Hvino's map, here.



more: news.hvino.com

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

PHOTOGRAPHY: Autumn colors from Tbilisi. By Fiqria Goginashvili.




ARCHITEKTUR: Project Orient, Tbilisi. Fritsch & Tschaidze Architekten GmbH (fritsch-tschaidse.de)

 
(fritsch-tschaidse.de) Der Neubau setzt ein Zeichen in der Altstadt in Tbilisi: er verdeutlicht baulich den Gedanken von Aufbruch und Bewegung - und damit die alten und neuen Ideale des georgischen Volkes.Der Bau verlässt den gewohnten Formenkanon der neoklassischen Baukultur der letzten 200 Jahre und macht sich frei von der Orthogonalität der baulichen Umgebung.

Er öffnet sich nach außen und erzeugt Beziehungsachsen zur Umgebungsbebauung., deren Wege sich im Kern des Gebäudes in einem sich nach oben trichterartig aufweitendem Hof treffen.

Das Gebäude ist in drei Schichten zoniert: auf Straßenniveau Läden und Restaurants, darüber Bürogeschosse mit Innenhöfen und Gärten, im oberen Bereich private Wohnungen mit Dachgärten. Im obersten Teil des Gebäudes befinden sich ein Restaurant mit Terrasse und Blick über die Stadt, darunter ein Fitness-Center mit Swimmingpool.

Das Herzstück des Gebäudes ist ein Innenhof mit Läden, Cafes, Restaurants und Galerien, verteilt auf unterschiedliche, miteinander verbundenen Ebenen. Er bildet einen lebendigen Treffpunkt, der durch die verglaste Überdachung taghell, wind- und sonnengeschützt eine ganzjährige Nutzung erlaubt. Dieser Raum setzt sich in den oberen Geschossen in Form grüner Gärten fort.

Um den skulpturalen Ansatz des Gebäudes zu betonen, werden in der Fassade unterschiedlich strukturierte Gläser verwendet. Die Läden erhalten eine profillose Verglasung über zwei Geschosse. Die Büros und Wohnungen darüber werden mit einer structural-glazing-facade überzogen, die durch Siebdrucke in unterschiedlichen Strukturen und Farbigkeit variiert, so dass der Grundgedanke der Bewegung in die Fassade transformiert wird.

Bauherr: GMT Group, Tbilisi/Georgien
Wettbewerb 2006-2007: 1.Preis
Mitarbeiter:
Kai Otto (Projektleiter)
Jessica Brück
Tobias Hübner
Silke Koller
Andreas Mrusek
Odile Ullrich
Gebäudedaten:
Kosten: ca. 44.634.000 €
BGF:40.942 qm

SCULPTURE: Thea Djordjadze interview at ACCA 2012 (accaonline.org.au)


(accaonline.org.au) Berlin based artist Thea Djordjadze sculptures are situated between form and anti-form, a combination of stable structures and fragile, gestural renderings typically exhibited together in a carefully choreographed setting. Here, she speaks about her practice prior to the opening of Sculptural Matter at ACCA.

Sculptural Matter
11 August - 23 September 2012

Including video and photography, cast and found forms, installations and assemblages, Sculptural Matter explores a sculptural way of thinking and making from both a historical and contemporary perspective. It includes such iconic works as Richard Serra 's Hand Catching Lead (1968) and Alina Szapocznikow's Photosculptures (1971) and new works by contemporary artists, Thea Djordjadze, Nairy Baghramian, Carol Bove, Gabriel Kuri, Sarah Lucas, Shahryar Nashat, and Tatiana Trouve.

Video Production: Emma Sullivan

AUSSTELLUNG: Fly To Baku - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Aserbaidschan in Berlin (flytobaku.com)

Einladung zum Pressegespräch mit Lunch am Freitag, den 2. November 2012 um 12 Uhr anlässlich der Ausstellung


Ablauf des Presselunch:
ab 12.00 Uhr Besichtigung der Ausstellung
ab 12.30 Uhr Pressegespräch mit
Hervé Mikaeloff, Kurator der Ausstellung
Emin Mammadov, Projektleiter der Ausstellung


Moderation: Ute Weingarten – artpress

13.00-15.00 Uhr Rundgang durch die Ausstellung mit den anwesenden Künstlern und dem Kurator; Möglichkeiten für Interviews

Vom 3. bis 17. November 2012 präsentiert die Heydar-Aliyev-Stiftung aus Aserbaidschan mit FLY TO BAKU die bisher umfassendste Ausstellung zeitgenössischer aserbaidschanischer Kunst in Deutschland. Mit 94 Arbeiten von 21 Künstlern aus drei Generationen bietet die Ausstellung in Berlin einen einzigartigen Einblick in die aktuelle Kunstszene des Landes.

FLY TO BAKU zeigt vielfältige künstlerische Positionen zwischen islamischer Bildtradition und modernem Einfluss. Vertreten sind alle Medien der zeitgenössischen Kunst – wie Malerei, Skulptur, Installation, Video, Performance und Fotografie. In zahlreichen eigens für die Ausstellung geschaffenen Arbeiten wird die tausendjährige Vergangenheit Aserbaidschans ebenso widergespiegelt, wie die Umwälzungen in der ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik seit ihrer Unabhängigkeit im Jahr 1991.

Die Heydar-Aliyev-Stiftung Aserbaidschan verfolgt das Ziel, die aserbaidschanische Kultur bekannter zu machen und leistet humanitäre Hilfe in Aserbaidschan und dem Ausland. Sie ermöglicht mit diesem Ausstellungsprojekt, das zuvor in Paris und London gezeigt wurde, einen Austausch mit Kunstszenen Europas und schafft eine internationale Plattform für die Künstler des Landes.


Painting by Tora Aghabayova
Weitere Links zu diesem Projekt (meist in englisch):

Die Ausstellung ist Di - So von 12-18 Uhr geöffnet. Der Eintritt ist frei.

Artist Talk am Samstag, den 3. November um 15 Uhr.

Zur Ausstellung erscheint ein Katalog in Deutsch und Englisch.

Mehr Informationen unter www.flytobaku.com

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Botschaft der Republik Aserbaidschan Berlin

Medienpartner Baku ART. CULTURE. AZERBAIJAN.

Pressekontakt:
artpress – Ute Weingarten l Elisabethkirchstraße 15 l 10115 Berlin
+49 (0)30 48 49 63 50
+49 30 21 96 18 43

PRODUCTION: Georgian doc See You in Chechnya in Production. By Lulia Blaga (filmneweurope.com)

(filmneweurope.com) JIHLAVA: Georgian director/producer Alexander Kvatashidze is in production with a feature documentary on war correspondents. The film will be a Georgian-Dutch-Estonian-French coproduction.
Alexander Kvatashidze wants to tell the story starting from his observations since he himself went to war in 1999. "As a storyteller and maybe as a character I am telling my personal experience of war and then I am continuing with the stories of other people, war reporters whom I met and became friends with", Kvatashidze told FNE. He has traced his characters' stories over the past 13 years. "It was a long process, but since it is part of my life it was easy for me to handle it".


PRODUCTION: Georgian doc See You in Chechnya in Production
See You in Chechnya, director/producer Alexander Kvatashidze
Kvatashidze developed the story through his Georgian company Lokokina Studio (www.lokokina.com) until 2011 when coproducers started to come on board: Rolf Orthel and the Dutch DNU Film, Eeero Talvistu and the Estonian Exitfilm (www.exitfilm.ee), and very recently Juliette Cazanave and the French Kepler 22 Production.

The budget will be between 150,000 and 200,000 EUR. The film is already in the production phase although not all the budget is in place. "I already managed to invest in processing equipment and in setting up the production on my own, and also I managed to commission a research phase and a couple of shooting expeditions. The project received 20,000 EUR start up money from Georgian National Film Center (gnfc.ge)", Kvatashidze also told FNE. This is the only grant the project has so far.

The project is participating in Ex Oriente 2012 workshop, organised by the Institute of Documentary Film (IDF, www.dokweb.net), whose second round took place during Jihlava Documentary International Film Festival (www.festival-dokument.cz) The premiere is scheduled for the end of 2013.

Production Information
Lokokina Studio
42/2 Nutsubidze Street, Apt #5
Tbilisi. 0177, Georgia
Phone: +995 577 42 45 77
www.lokokina.com
sandygeorgia@gmail.com

DNU Film
J.M. Coenenstraat 6 K 1071
WG Amsterdam, KVK: 143043
Phone: 020-4229469
rolf.orthel@xs4all.nl

Exitfilm
1 Madala street, 10313
Tallinn, Estonia
Phone: +372 6611 005
Fax: +372 6604 121
www.exitfilm.ee
eero@exitfilm.ee

Juliette Cazanave
Kepler 22 Production
61 rue de Belleville
75019 Paris
Phone: +336 64 49 46 34
juliette.cazanave@googlemail.com

Credits
Director: Alexander Kvatashidze
DOP: Alexander Kvatashidze

VIDEO: Kampolina - (Gogi Dzodzuashvli, Post Industrial Boys) (youtube.com)


Post Industrial Boys is the debut album by Gogi Ge.Org aka George Dzodzuashvili. Seven different voices are found on Post Industrial Boys. All share an affinity to Goslab, a group of artists from Tbilisi, Georgia (including TBA/Natalie Beridze, Nikakoi, Gio + Maya Sumbadze...). Goslab is a phantom, which manifests itself as a culture through the performances of individual members and their various projects. In this sense, Goslab is somewhat like Georgia. Georgia is a post-communist phantom -- a pipeline in Off-Europe. A projection screen. There is a 5-hour time difference between London and Tbilisi. Tbilisi starts singing while America and Western Europe are still asleep. Post-industrial: The fifth Kondratieff wave will see the transition from hardware to software. Marx is on the finish line, somewhere between the greater and smaller Caucasus. Oil is entropy, ashes. 'Reproduction of what cannot be transformed' (Paul Valéry). Survival in global capitalism. Post-industrial joys. Streams. Sounds."

Label: Max Ernst
Catalog#: max.E.-CD7
Format: CD
Country: Germany
Released: 2004
Genre: Electronic
Style: Leftfield, Experimental

Video: Director: Nino Tavartkiladze, (the music video for "Yellow Shark" project, NYFA) DP Allan Fiterman.
Cast Theresa Wayman, John Black.


Lyrics By [Invented Words], Vocals -- Nino Palavandishvili

MUSIC & VIDEO: Tinatin - Woods. By Tinatin Shurgaia (youtube.com)


თინათინი - Woods.
თინათინ შურღაიას სიმღერა.
არანჟირება - გოგი ძოძუაშვილი.
კლიპში გამოყენებულია ფრაგმენტები მან რეის, ლეჟეს და ძმები ჰალპერინების ფილმებიდან

Tinatin - Woods
Music production by Gogi Dzodzuashvili
Video uses fragments from the films by Man Ray, Leger and Brothers Halperin. Edited by Nico Nergadze

Monday, October 29, 2012

REPORT: Caucasus Report - New Georgian Leadership To Reopen Investigation Of Ex-Prime Minister’s Death

(rferl.org) Speaking to journalists one week after her nomination as justice minister in Bidzina Ivanishvili’s new cabinet, Tea Tsulukiani said the investigations into the deaths of banker Sandro Girgvliani and Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania will be reopened as numerous questions remain unanswered.

Georgia's incoming Justice Minister Tea Tsulukiani (file photo)

Girgvliani was found beaten and stabbed in the throat on the outskirts of Tbilisi in January 2006 after an altercation in a bar the previous night with senior Interior Ministry personnel and the wife of Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili. Zhvania was found dead with another man in a rented Tbilisi apartment early on February 3, 2005. Georgian officials, including Merabishvili, immediately said their deaths were caused by carbon monoxide poisoning from an Iranian-manufactured heater that had been incorrectly installed. But FBI experts who traveled to Tbilisi to assist the investigation failed to confirm that assumption.

Zhvania’s brother Giorgi subsequently adduced circumstantial evidence suggesting the two men died elsewhere and their bodies were then transported to the apartment where they were found. Giorgi Zhvania has now openly accused Merabishvili and two other former senior officials of staging, at the behest of President Mikhail Saakashvili, the scene at the apartment intended to create the impression that the two men were the accidental victims of asphyxiation. Zhvania stressed, however, that he is "not saying that it was these persons who killed my brother."

The apartment where the bodies of Zhvania and Kvemo Kartli Deputy Governor Raul Usupov were discovered had been rented several months previously by Misha Dzadzamia, one of Zhvania’s bodyguards, for clandestine assignations with his mistress, according to UPI on November 28, 2005. Zhvania had requested the temporary use of it "for a secret meeting." When Zhvania failed to make regular contact with his bodyguards, Dzadzamia broke a window to enable another bodyguard to enter the apartment. That man found Zurab Zhvania and Yusupov dead and "a terrible smell...like something was burning."

Merabishvili announced within hours that the two men had died of carbon monoxide poisoning, but carbon monoxide has no odor. Moreover, the main gas supply to the entire street had been cut hours before the bodies were discovered because residents had reported a suspected gas leak. FBI experts invited to Tbilisi by the Georgian authorities failed to confirm that the heater could have produced lethal quantities of carbon monoxide, according to an IWPR article by investigative journalist Vakhtang Komakhidze published a year after Zhvania’s death.

In that article, Komakhidze also listed Giorgi Zhvania’s doubts that his brother died in the apartment where his body was found. Giorgi Zhvania had earlier pointed out repeatedly that neither his brother’s fingerprints nor those of Yusupov were found anywhere in that apartment. He said Zurab never smoked a cigarette to the end and always twisted it when stubbing it out, but only one of the several dozen cigarette butts found in the apartment had been extinguished that way. Giorgi Zhvania also noted that the food laid out on the table (together with a bottle of cognac) included sausage, which his brother did not eat, according to www.rustavi2.com on April 4, 2005.

Komakhidze later made a TV documentary questioning the official version of the circumstances of Zhvania’s death that was shown in October 2007 on Russia’s REN TV channel.

In the September 2007 TV interview in which he accused Saakashvili of condoning corruption and the murder of political opponents, former Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili also said he knows that Zhvania did not die at the location where he was found. Zurab Noghaideli, who succeeded Zhvania as premier but fell out with Saakashvili in 2008, has also hinted that he knows incriminating details about Zhvania’s death, but he has not revealed them.

In his interview with Maestro TV, Giorgi Zhvania named three former top officials who he claims engineered the transport of the bodies of his brother and Yusupov to the apartment where they were found. The three are Merabishvii; former Deputy Prime Minister Giorgi Baramidze, now a deputy parliament speaker representing Saakashvili’s United National Movement (EEM); and former Prosecutor General Zurab Adeishvili, who according to Tsulukiani left Georgia after the EEM’s defeat in the October 1 parliamentary election. 

more here: Georgia Justice Hinges On Who Is the Leader

Read more: in The Moscow Times
themoscowtimes.com

BLOG: The Parliament in Kutaisi should be a Concert Hall (dfwatch.net)

(dfwatch.net) Georgia moves parliament back to the capital
 
TBILISI, DFWatch — The government in Georgia says it will move parliament back to the capital Tbilisi.
October 21, parliamentarians met for their first regular session in Kutaisi, after President Mikheil Saakashvili as recently as 2011 decided to build an entirely new parliament building in Georgia’s second largest city, a decision which has been controversial.
The new Justice Minister says that moving parliament back to Tbilisi will be one of the first issues to be changed in the Georgian constitution.
Tea Tsulukiani says the decision to move parliament to Kutaisi was unprepared. MPs have had to move to a new city and can hardly find a place to live.
“Kutaisi is the heart of Georgia. It should be given priority in regards to becoming a university city, but the legislative and executive government should work at the capital.”
Construction work was still not finished for the first session when the Georgian Dream coalition came with a majority.
Its leader Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is now Prime Minister, has said he will move parliament back to the capital and make the new parliament in Kutaisi into a concert hall.

 

ARCHITECTURE: Government considers planned new city Lazika

(dfwatch.net) TBILISI, DFWatch — The new government has still not decided whether to implement Saakashvili’s idea of building a completely new city Lazika in Georgia.
 
The new government have different ideas about the plan to build a city with half a million people on the Black Sea shores near the conflict zone.
Building Lazika city was an unexpected idea which Mikheil Saakashvili described in one of his speeches at the end of 2011, when no one had heard of it. There has been debate over whether it is right to build a completely new city if there are a number of old cities needing rehabilitation, and whether it will attract new investors.
At first, in the beginning of October, when the election results weren’t final, Bidzina Ivanishvili, the current Prime Minister, said there is no need to build Lazika and he said Lazika is Saakasvhili’s largest joke.
“Why should a city be built on that swamp, for whom will it be, when all of Georgia is almost empty,” he said.
However, the day before being approved as Prime Minister, Bidzina Ivansihvili said building Lazika is absurd, but a port may still be built there.
He said he is badly informed about the issue and cannot give specific answers, but the government will review this issue. The Prime Minister thinks building a port is more realistic.
Giorgi Kvirikashvili, who is Georgia’s new economy minister, stated that the new economy team has way much important priorities than building Lazika.
“I doubt someone will have time for Lazika in the nearest future,” he said a week before being approved to his new post. “This is not an infrastructure project, but it is about building a new city, which may be implemented by participation of private investors and their desire, but not by forcing someone.”
The period before the election President Saakashvili spoke about different projects in Lazika. At the end of September he visited a place for the future city stating that constructions of a church is to start soon, which will be a copy of Bana Cathedral, Georgian cathedral built in VII, which is on territory of Turkey right now.
Mikheil Saakashvili said then that a port of Lazia will be the largest in Georgia’s sea coast and port will host large-ton ships.
President described each corner of the city where there will be located logistic centers, plants, water pipes.
“Georgia needs Port Lazika if we want to have large income,” he said adding that 1500-2000 people will be employed.
Previous government planned to dry swamps, build business-centers, city hall, hotels and Lazika would have own airport.
Two building constructions are already finished. Those are port administration, which used to be living building of Interior Ministry, but was transferred into port administration now having poster attached ‘Lazika Port’; and another building is Lazika City Hall.
Different projects and drawings of future city was released by initiators, including Georgia’s famous house of Justice, a glass building; 3d commercial of the city was also released.
Another point of Lazika construction supporters is that new city will have political opportunities as it will be located close to Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia, which is currently occupied by Russia.
Kakha Bendukidze, who former economy minister is chair of Free University, explains that Lazika may create door or a window, which will give Abkhaz population to look in Georgia, come to Georgia and cooperate with this part of the country, he told Rustavi 2 TV.
“If we do everything right, then Lazika will become for Abkhaz populations, what West Berlin used to be for East Berlin population in its time,” he explained.
However, new government officials do not go in details while commenting about fate of the new city. Yet it is known that port of the new city may be finished, but people working in the port should live somewhere, critics say.
When budget draft was presented for 2012 to parliament, which approved the draft at the end of 2011, Lazika wasn’t mentioned there. However, money was allocated from the state for constructions of highway, bridges and a house of justice in Lazika.

EXKURSION: Auf den Spuren der Armenier in Wien (orient-gesellschaft.at)

Mittwoch, 07.11.2012, 16:00 Uhr - 18:00 Uhr
Stephansdom 

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
ich möchte Sie gerne zu der nächste Woche stattfindenden Führung einladen:

Die apostolischen Armenier
Univ.-Doz.in DDr.in Jasmine Dum-Tragut

Anmeldung bis 5.11. unter silvia.carvalho@orient-gesellschaft.at
 
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Orient-Akademie
A-1010 Wien
Dominikanerbastei 6/6

PAPER: Georgian Dream or Nightmare? Transition of power poses great challenges for Georgia and its foreign relations (fiia.fi)

(fiia.fi) Published 29.10.2012


The Finnish Institute of International Affairs

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The victory of the Georgian Dream Coalition (GDC) over the United National Movement (UNM) has brought pluralism into Georgian policymaking.

Until the power shifts from the President to the Prime Minister in 2013, the country will be led by an awkward dual power. 

New leadership offers great opportunities for Georgia. It can improve its democratic system and economic growth and establish a dialogue with Russia and the breakaway districts of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. This would alleviate the frozen conflict and tense security dilemma on the boundary lines. 

If the transition of power does not go well, there will be prolonged power struggles that could cripple the policymaking and cast Georgia back to pre-Saakashvili times.

Saakashvili’s UNM is still a very significant player in Georgian politics and it is important for the GDC and the UNM to find a way to cooperate.

In order to smooth the fragile transition period, Georgia needs special support and attention.

ARCHITEKTUR: Blumig oder blümerant? Public Service Hall in Tbilisi

(detail.de) von am Das weltweit größte Public Service Center wurde gerade fertiggestellt – das Gebäude könnte daneben, architektonisch gesehen, auch gleich noch den Rekord für die größte von Menschenhand gefertigte Blume für sich verbuchen.

Blumig oder blümerant? Public Service Hall in Tbilisi

Entworfen wurde die Tbilisi Public Service Hall, in Georgien direkt am Ufer des Flusses Kura in Tbilisi gelegen, vom italienischen Architekturbüro Fuksas Studio (Massimiliano und Doriana Fuksas).
 
Eine Ansammlung von sieben Gebäuden, über die elf gigantische Blütenblätter wie zum Schutz – oder auch, um die einzelnen Gebäude unter einen “Hut” zu bringen, angeordnet sind. Die Blätter, auf Stahlsäulen in Baumform angebracht, sind nicht nur von außen von weitem zu sehen, sondern bestimmen auch den Blick von Innen aus den einzelnen Gebäuden. Sicherlich ein Hingucker – der symbolisch vielleicht auch den Services innerhalb der Gebäude – der georgischen Nationalbang, dem Energieministerium und weiteren Behörden eine blumige Zukunft versprechen soll.

more pics: detail.de

VERANSTALTUNG: Die Parlamentswahlen in Georgien 2012

(orient-gesellschaft.at) Donnerstag, 08.11.2012, 18:30 Uhr – 20:00 Uhr
 
ÖOG/HP, Klubsaal
 
Vortrag: Die Parlamentswahlen in Georgien 2012

Mag. Johannes Wetzinger, Fachhochschule des bfi Wien

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Sunday, October 28, 2012

TRAVEL: The Rooms Hotel in Kazbegi, Georgia (yatzer.com)

(yatzer.com) published in: Travel By Tina Komninou, 24 October 2012 

photos © Irakli Bluishvili 

There are certain idyllic locations around the world that simply remain as an ideal of a dream to visit in person and see these wonders up close. However, the beauty of architecture & design is that they sometimes make the visit closer to reality with the creation of one more reason to entice you to realize your dream. One such realization is the Rooms Hotel located in the magical Caucasus Mountains in Kazbegi, Georgia.
The complete creation of this hotel was achieved by Georgian Designers Nata Janberidze & Keti Toloraia. Founders of their company Rooms in 2003 which specialize in Interior and Product Design, they took the decision to mark their identity with this spectacular addition to their brand.  This year the hotel opened its doors and put the Caucasus Mountains on the map for a completely new audience. 

Looking at this former soviet Tourist Center’s building exterior structure and cladding, it is obvious that it has been designed based on the surrounding environment. If you observe the exterior from a distance, at a particular angle, you read the mountaintops as the building’s roof design. The façade is decorated with wood & metal partitions dividing the rooms and balconies while creating vertical and horizontal lines, which give the entire building a simple, geometric look. The exact same concept is perceived in the tones and the shapes of the structure. These features both organically compliment the great outdoors and we can dare say that this building adds to the beauty of the landscape. The presence of the specific wood finish on such a green environment is breathtakingly dynamic and inviting. The effect of a mountain lodge in a mod structure is perceived with great success.

Indoors, the portrayal of this ideology was of equal importance. The use of natural materials in the interior retains the 'mountain hotel' style environment, providing maximum comfort where guests feel the complete leisure and relaxation of the surroundings.  Large open spaces decorated with lounging sofas, armchairs, bookshelves, carpets and mountain accessories while taking advantage of the great views by the large glazing’s, is all that you need for a recipe of success.  The sole materials used are wood, steel & brick retaining a continuity and simplicity throughout the interior and giving focus to detailing as opposed to finishes. A design philosophy which you know that we strongly believe in.

Simply put, the Rooms Hotel is not just a destination, it is a successful determination.

sources: Rooms Hotel