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The original design impulse for the hotel was to incorporate Japanese elements and these are still strongly evident, from the Japanese raked sand garden to the way the fenestration works. Location is right on the edge of the Store Bælt, its sheltered waters crossed by a fourteen kilometre long causeway and bridge visible from the bedrooms, the vista itself having a strangely Japanese quality, the bridge towering white from the grey waters like a Hokusai print of Mt. Fuji. Japanese prints feature in the corridors and the characteristics are consciously echoed in the blue and white china and the flower arrangements used in the dining rooms etc., The original designs for the bedrooms have been well looked after, and the rooms are large, with large well designed bathrooms. The bathrooms all have large walk-in showers as well as a large soaking tub, double wash hand basins etc., and are well detailed. Where marble has been replaced with tile in a mistaken attempt at upgrading they do not look as classy, but the marble is in good condition and could easily be brought back to a high quality with the right restoration treatment.
Despite the Japanese overtones the interior benefits from typically Danish touches – the use of candles, and open log fires. Additional antiques reinforce the quality and comfort expressed by the existing timber panelling and the rolling programme of improvements introduced reinforces the comfort part of the equation. Overall the pragmatic approach has worked to date, but I suspect that there is a need to adopt an overall design strategy to give coherence to changes that will otherwise upgrade without producing a integrated overall effect.
This is a lovely property being well managed, and could provide a classic example of how good design as part of the overall upgrading could bring additional style to help add to the revenue stream.
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