Hotel Teatro

Some people have the knack of looking at a space and knowing exactly how to decorate for maximum impact. I'm not just talking about being able to position furniture in an attractive way but being able to use lighting to create a mood, knowing how and where to resculpt walls and how to use fabric. The new Hotel Teatro (theatre hotel) opened in Porto a couple of months ago and is yet another fantastic notch on Nini Andrade Silva's belt. She used thousands of yards of the most luxurious fabric throughout the hotel to echo the stage curtains of the theatre in former years. Seats all over the hotel are shaped like the bucket seats in the old auditorium and black and white prints of audiences cover walls, floors and are printed on carpets. Every tiny detail, from the famous prose scripted across the doors to the lobby, to the industrial stage lights in the restaurants to the old costumes spotlit in glass cases throughout the building, has been completely thought through. The result is a strikingly glamorous and luxurious boutique hotel that I can't wait to visit.