Hotel Folio, Copenhagen.
Fourteen rooms across two pre-war buildings in Vesterbro. A hotel that asks little of its guests and gives a great deal back.
The brief
A hotel that stops performing.
Folio’s owners had run a small publishing house for twenty years. They wanted a hotel that felt like the back office of a press — quiet, low-lit, full of books and paper.
Scope
Fourteen rooms, two lobbies, a small bar, and a working library open to guests.
Timeline
Fourteen months from concept to opening. Opened spring 2024.
Material family
Lime-wash, ash, blackened steel, undyed wool, cork.
Team
Levente Kádár (lead). Architecture: Tegnestuen Lokal. Joinery: Skog and Tre.
The rooms
Fourteen quiet rooms.
No two rooms are identical, but every room shares one ceiling colour, one bed linen, and one reading light.
The library
A working library, not a decoration.
The lobby is a working library — 2,400 books from the owners’ publishing back-catalogue, plus a rotating shelf curated by a different writer each season. Guests sign books out at the front desk.nnThe room has been used more than the rooms above it.
A hospitality brief in mind?
Hospitality and small commercial briefs sit at the larger end of the practice — typically eight to eighteen months on site, co-led by two partners.