Gold Piece

2023 Author : Hannah Pearcy | [email protected] . Last modified: 2023-11-26 11:39

Over a hundred years ago, the Kurhaushotel in Bad Salzhausen, a district of Nidda, was a meeting place for high society. Today only historical postcards remind of these heyday. The house is now a trendy address again, a color concept brings a feel-good atmosphere into the classicist monument. Petra Neumann-Prystaj Hans-Jürgen Eckhardt, who has been the new owner of the Kurhaus hotel since 2015, wants to make the three-storey building in the classicist style created by Georg Moller in 1826 the social center of the region again. Harmonious color concept Thanks to conversions and a harmonious color concept, the house has now gained a feel-good atmosphere, as guests and conference participants appreciate today. "We redesigned and renewed the restaurant,the entrance area and the foyer have been completely redesigned and a bar has been installed. Because a conference hotel without a bar is not possible,”explains Eckhardt. The businessman, born in Nidda, has many beautiful, personal memories associated with the Moller building. It was clear to him that large investments were necessary to secure an economic future for the hotel with the 49 rooms. The result of the modernization was to be “upscale, but not uplifted”. “The hotel looked as sterile as a community center,” he recalls. "When you came in, you looked at three large radiators - unbelievable!" It also bothered him that the natural beauty of the reddish granite floor in the spacious foyer was not really shown due to the bright colors of the surroundings. Character was preserved In the graduate engineer and interior designer Stefanie Lehmann and in the master painter Hans Wiesner, the managing director of Georg Mayer Baudekoration, he found two specialists who put his ideas into practice within a quarter of a year - and that with ongoing operation and participation monument preservation. The classicist character of the rooms was preserved, style elements were interpreted in a modern way. The new owner wanted a clear, coherent color concept. The hotel should be modern, subtle and inviting. When designing the colors, Lehmann was inspired by the granite floor in the entrance hall. She developed the new room atmosphere around this center. The warm contrast to the cool natural stone is formed by a soft, blackberry-colored carpet,at the same time a haptic experience when entering. Light and strong brown and a dominant blackberry color run like a red thread through the renovation concept. The furniture designed individually for each room by the interior designer and the fabrics she selects also follow this requirement. Heavy brown leather furniture is now juxtaposed with the same-colored display cabinets in the entrance area. A display case filled with bottles allows indirect glimpses of the bar and is designed to arouse curiosity about the evening chill meeting point. When the light shimmers through the cognac-colored drinks, exciting reflections arise. In addition to the purple carpet, the golden columns (Caparol Metallocryl in the color 3D Palazzo 160) set the tone. The overall impression results from these details: noble, solid, generous. In the bar,a window-high room, dark woods combined with brass dominate. The gold-colored ceiling, illuminated by crystal chandeliers, looks precious. The color theme gold is taken up again by the crescent-shaped wall lights. The red-purple blackberry tone that is already familiar from the foyer and restaurant can be found in the velvet chair covers. Connecting element An extravagant touch is achieved by the graphically patterned fabric on the lounge chairs of the bar in ivory and black. In the restaurant, this material reappears on the chairs at the round table as a connecting element - the bar stools are covered with the blackberry velvet of the restaurant benches. In this way, each room is connected in color to the other. “You feel safe and like to linger a little longer at the counter.“A bar should definitely exude this security,” Stefanie Lehmann explains her concept. That “certain something” Although Eckhardt always agreed with her suggestions, she had to persuade him for a long time to have the restaurant's previously white cassette ceiling painted burgundy red (Caparol Malerit 3D Baccara 5). Today he is thrilled with the result. It is precisely this color, a “vitamin boost” for the eye, that gives the space created for solid celebrations that “certain something”. If the chandeliers shine, the guest feels like in a castle hall. The foyer commemorates the Hessian architect who created the Kurhaus building 190 years ago. At the suggestion of Stefanie Lehmann, a profile picture of Georg Moller hangs there - in a gold-colored frame. It is the bridge between 2016 and 1826,where the history of the Kurhaus hotel began. Now it has arrived in modern times.

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Client: Hans-Jürgen Eckhardt, Nidda Interior architecture: Dipl.-Ing. Stefanie Lehmann, Oldenburg Gastronomic and conceptual advice: Hubert Sterzinger, Cologne Construction management / coordination: Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Kobberger, Prien am Chiemsee Interior: Tischlerei Hinsche Gastrobau GmbH, Hatten-Sandkrug Painting work: Georg Mayer Baudekoration, Nidda Specialist advice: Stefan Eibich Products used: Malerit, Capadecor Metallocryl Interior,