The Hat: ho(s)tel in a palace

Among the new additions to the list of buildings of the Open House Madrid 2016 event we can visit The Hat, an ho(s)tel in Madrid, signed by the team of the architect Jesus Manzanares, the Aaprile interior design studio and the illustrator Yembara, in the heart of the capital, in a palace of the year 1885 between the squares of Sol and la Latina.

The Hat tries to define itself as a new concept of accommodation: a hotel that includes the advantages of the hostels. It also includes innovative services such as Concierge Night Life, the own mobile APP to open rooms or the bikes and tablets rental.

The urbanite interior and attentive to every detail of The Hat, seasoned with organic and bold accents getting the eclectic style that characterizes it, as we see in the furniture pinewood of any of the 41 rooms with 220 beds (designed and expressly made for the hostel in a small furniture factory in Toledo), reusing original forging columns or the millwheel at the rooftop hanging pots chains by the inner courtyard. Yembara puts the finishing touch to all this mixture, responsible for manually perform all the murals and hotel signs.

But The Hat is not only a place to stay. It also offers different opportunities for socialization; the reception has a gastrobar; the basement (The Cave) is a multifunctional space with cultural and leisure activities such as exhibitions or acoustic concerts which is also the breakfast area; or finally the rooftop, the jewel of the building, an exclusive solarium by the day and one of the most famous Madrid sky bar by afternoon and evening.

The Hat commitment to sustainable design, becoming the first hotel in Madrid having biomass obtained from olive stones as an energy source for hot water, reusing water to the rooftop garden and rejecting all plastic utensils.

In a time when spaces of  retro-urban aesthetics are booming in the capital, The Hat joins this popular style in their spaces. So, you know, if you are an inconcidional fan of this decorative fashion that fills the streets of Madrid more than ever, here you have a new spot to visit next October and decide whether the fantastic reviews that the establishment has on social networks do justice to the design of this space.