Alex Hotel
Located within the cosmopolitan and developing cultural landscape of Northbridge in Perth is the Alex Hotel; a joyous collaboration between Perth-based architects Spaceagency, Arent&Pyke, and the hotel’s passionate founders. “Sarah-Jane Pyke and Juliette Arent were tasked with creating a homely, welcoming, timeless and individual ambience for guests. Years later and their design scheme continues to play a fundamental role in making our guests feel at immediately at home, in comfortable and familiar surroundings.” Alex Hotel founders
- Scope
Interior Design, Furnishing, Object and Art
- Location
Perth, WA
- Architecture
Space Agency
- Photography
Anson Smart
- Awards
Winner 2016 Australian Interior Design Awards AIDA Hospitality
Winner 2016 Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards Hospitality
Winner 2016 Dulux Colour Awards Hospitality
Shortlist 2016 Interior Design Excellence Awards IDEA Hospitality
Developing a softened, refined aesthetic scheme, Arent&Pyke’s furnishing specification and interior styling spoke to the imagined personality of Alex, the character behind the eponymous hotel. Travelled, lively and meditative, Alex has become a much-visited and much-loved identity of Perth’s cityscape. “We wanted to reflect the richness of Alex’s personality,” the designers continue, “forming our interior vision around four essential pillars: the personal, the escape, the craft and the legacy. The Alex hotel wants to nurture, and we created that through championing its sense of intimacy and domesticity.”
The owners recognised from the outset that unless the interior design of the Alex Hotel was domestic in scale and aesthetic, the project would feel like just another small hotel regardless of how much effort the hosts made. After initial meetings with commercial interior design consultants did not result in proposals that met the brief, the owners approached Arent & Pyke to take on the project. Arent & Pyke were tasked with creating an ambience for guests that was homely, welcoming, timeless and individual.
Alex Hotel, in Perth’s Cultural Centre, proves that Perth's foremost gourmands - and owners of some of the hippest eating and drinking establishments in the city, are as hip with boutique stays as they are with artisanal edibles. Inside the Cubist-style-Yin-Yang block, Aussie interiors firm Arent & Pyke have added Marcel Breuer-style seating, pendant lights and acid-hued sofas to create a hotel with the informality of a city crashpad.
Alex Hotel
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