The Missoni Hotel, Edinburgh
Recently Edinburgh have boasted its image from a staid academic town to a cultural hot spot with lively festivals, robust nightlife and, yes, even fashion. The most attention-getting part of that transformation is the Missoni, a 136–room hotel opened this year by the Italian fashion house in the very center of town.
The creator, Rosita Missoni, designed the property, blending a stark black-and-white palette with bright bursts of color, like purple glass walls, blood-orange hallways and symmetrically striped carpeting. The brand’s classic colorful textiles play especially well; somehow, even the doormen’s Chevron zig-zag kilts seem not a thread overworked in a city of somber gray stone and black medieval spires. Each room came with free Wi-Fi and an espresso machine, and is dressed in an ensemble of lacquered ruby, robin’s egg blue, lemongrass and moss green. And mixed into the kaleidoscope were mirrors, silver leather and black-and-white fringe curtains — all of it somehow relaxing rather than seizure inducing.
You will find Hotel Missoni breathtaking because of its quality and natural beauty. The Missoni way is to make the world more beautiful and more comfortable. The hotel is dedicated to real people who laugh and cry, who appreciate and enjoy ‘fashion and style” as a part of real life good coffee, hearty eating, love and light, the sea, the city, hard work and adventure, love of home, family and appreciation of the immense beauty of the natural world.
