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Our latest TOPHOTELDESIGN exclusive looks into the 2019-completed renovation of the legendary Raffles Hotel Singapore, one of South-East Asia’s most famous landmarks.
Bringing together the expertise of several top design studios, the reinvention of the Raffles Hotels & Resorts’ property paid tribute to its storied past while laying the groundwork for a new chapter of ‘emotional luxury’.
A design-led revamp
In the summer of 2019, Raffles Hotel Singapore, which is owned by Katara Hospitality, emerged from a sensitive three-phased restoration that began in early 2017. This flagship Accor property was brought into the 21st century with the addition of newly designed spaces that retained the hotel’s distinct heritage and architecture.
sort of like a residence suites. it s in a place basically a hotel on vatican grounds. it s got a bedroom, a receiving room and a small sort of kitchenette. i mean yeah he wants to walk his own talk. my favorite story about that is the way he works the phone for himself. you know rather than having people place his calls including calling his newspaper delivery guy in buenos aires the very morning after being elected pope to say, hey, i m not coming back can you please cancel my subscription. and the guy didn t really believe it was the pope right? and of course the successor in bunz arz got mad. we say the first time in the united states for pope francis, part of the reason for that is because he believed he wanted to stay with his people in argentina the whole time he was bishop and archbishop there he hadn t even been to the holy land until his trip as pope last year. so this is a pope who really