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fused with the old and with the new, mixing
MODERN DESIGN
touches with themes from
ATHENIAN
CULTURE
New Hotel strives to maintain links with the local
neighbourhood wherever possible.
Under the initiative of Yes! Hotels
owner and renowned art collector
Dakis Ioannou, and with the Brothers’ guidance, the University students
and reused, recycled and reinterpreted
local materials and culture, creating
striking results. This includes using
the old Olympic Palace sign to create
innovative coffee tables, and a selection
of forgotten everyday materials such as
ageing fabric samples and rusty ladders,
to transform the Scandinavian chair
into an array of unique pieces.
A nod to the hotel’s past, New Hotel
has maintained the black marble staircase and its typical 1940s solid-wood
balustrade from the old “Olympic Palace Hotel” which once operated where
New Hotel now stands.
New Taste restaurant is located on the
ground floor of the hotel and again
pays homage to the old Olympic Palace
Hotel that stood before it, by creating contemporary art from its old and
forgotten. Columns made of recycled
wood