Maria Santa Teresa: you have 295 days left to sleep in this hotel
I have my reservations about anything that calls itself a pop up. Before anything beautiful, precise. If something is attractive I want it to last . I don't want to come one day and it's gone. I'm glad that places like the Mamounia, the Dolder Grand, the Tokyo Mandarin or Le Bristol, some of my favorite hotels, are always there.
For this reason, every time I read that a pop-up space opens, anxiety invades me. I inform myself of the opening and closing dates and write them down in the Gmail agenda. Nothing beautiful can escape. The Maria Santa Teresa, the ephemeral hotel that Design Hotels™ has opened in Rio de Janeiro makes it, more or less, easy: It will be open for a year.
Maria Santa Teresa: the hotel that will be open for a year
And, at this point, the big question arises: where does the ephemeral begin and end? How ephemeral does something ephemeral have to be to be called ephemeral? A month, a minute? The Maria Santa Teresa, will appear and disappear in December 2014, once the madness of the World Cup in Brazil is over , but almost two years before the Olympics start. And we continue with the questions: Is it worth opening a hotel for only twelve months?
To Design Hotels™ yes. In fact, it is the third pop up hotel to open after his experiments in Tulum and Mykonos . In Maria Santa Teresa there is nothing random. The country is not: Brazil is a hot destination, full of benefits (yes, Caetano, Niemeyer and Gisele) and where almost everyone wants to go. Rio de Janeiro is, within Brazil, the place where everyone passes. We have too many hours of Joao Gilberto behind us to spend anything.
Rio is a mixture of geography, architecture, good sushi and thousands of people playing sports on the beach. The area where the hotel is located is not casual either. It is not in Leblon or Ipanema, but in Santa Teresa, the hip neighborhood that every city should have. Santa Teresa is on a mountain, with vegetation that seeps through the windows and many beautiful people who hang out in its small restaurants and shop in its stores. People, in general, with better skin tone and firmness than us.
The hotel has six rooms
Chosen country, city and neighborhood, it remained to design the hotel. An ephemeral hotel must be small. It's common sense. East Has six rooms ; also its corresponding swimming pool, a bar and a cigar bar open to guests and curious. The interior design is tropicalist-surfer style, something that they cultivate very well in Brazil.
The María Santa Teresa is a nice hotel and that is above the pop-up label, as contemporary as it may be. That is its charm, which seems to last forever, although with six rooms and the number of informed people in the world, it will be difficult to book.