Kodō Hotel is the coolest new hotel in LA, with beautiful rooms and minimalist style in a maximalist world.
What really matters in a hotel ? Is it location , ease , elan , facility , or is it just the Mary Leontyne Price ? Do you need four walls with a bed and a can because you ’ll only be there to sleep , or are you attend for an escape from the city to help you unstrain ? Your priorities for where to stay in LA count on your trip , but they also say a destiny about you as a traveler . What is style worth to you ? If the response is something tangible , then bet tokodō hotel , a striking new hotel in downtown LA ’s Arts District that may be the most beautiful place to stay in LA .
The Modern dress shop hotel has just eight room , lining a hall up a half - hidden staircase attach tokodō the eating house — one of the best restaurant in the Arts District — and the lovely adjoining coffee bar . Each hotel room , like the restaurant and the coffee bar , was gorgeously plan byM Royce Architectureandgry spacein immaculate Japanese minimalist expressive style , with a moody ticket and black colouration pallette stress by ash Ellen Price Wood , rounded rock , and occasional brandish of leaf .
It is a thoroughly New space , and if it were n’t for the brick facade with “ Engine Co. No . 7 ” chip at into it you ’d scarcely know the edifice is a 100 - year - old firehouse . And yet the space also play directly opposite the mod tendency towards maximalism : the rooms are stark and almost ascetic , soothing in their austerity ; where so many young places shout , kodō hotel whispers .
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That hush does n’t mean it ’s insipid , though — it ’s anything but . Each room is theme around a rude element , matter like maple , moss , rock , and the moon , and the minimalist way interior decoration incorporate the theme with pernicious touches , a tenuous semblance idiom here , a small vase there .
There are also more pragmatic design feature that are strange in this part of the world . The first of these is the concrete floor , ramp up over the hardwood underneath so that you step up into the room , and also so that the tycoon sizing futon - style bottom on its corner springs stays low-toned to the ground , a nod to the hotel ’s Japanese ryokan inspiration .
But perhaps the first thing you will notice when you enter your room is the bath — or rather the sump and the cascade , which are true statement pieces . They are done up in spectacular inglorious , and the sink itself is a cryptic ink-black gemstone footstall with a custom - built floating stone mirror in front of it illuminated by a gentle rotary light . The sink and exhibitor are also , you will note , open to the blank space at large , with only a modest dividing wall and the varying storey grain to tell them . It is an irregular alternative , perchance even unique in LA , and if nothing else it is a bold and lovely visual assertion . It keeps the entire room open in one airy space , work with the high ceilings and the minimal decor to keep things flowing — vim - knowing , though hopefully not piddle - wise . It has some of the vaguely risque pleasure of an outdoor shower , while keeping you comfortable within the four walls of your hotel room . It does , however , intend that if you ’re traveling with family or not - so - intimate Friend this may not be the hotel for you .
It is a great hotel for a staycation , though , as a serene and peaceful escape for one or two citizenry in a fun part of town . There are great restaurants and cafes all around , including one of each attach to the hotel itself , several cool bars that vagabond from divey to luxe , and oodles ofplaces to shopand galleries to explore .
It is also likely to be popular among stylish vacationers and high - end business travelers to the Arts District and downtown in general . In particular , Warner Music Group ’s headquarters are directly across the street , and there are fancy inauguration break up throughout the Arts District these day , at ROW DTLA , At Mateo , and other high - remnant billet complex that stud the area . It ’s a far cry from what the Arts District was in the quondam days , but it is perhaps the perfect symbolisation of what it is now : a voguish , chop-chop maturing neck of the woods built inside the reanimated underframe of 20th century manufacture . Against the odds these warehouse , manufacturing plant , and fire stations have become startups and eating house , cafes and studios , galleries and hotel , a hub for luxury visitors , and now there ’s a place for those sumptuousness visitors to sleep and shower in high style .
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