The 264-room Hotel Palomar Los Angeles - Beverly Hills, a Kimpton hotel, recently completed a US$12 million propertywide renovation.
The revamp, from Seattle-based Dawson Design Associates, included new guest rooms, dining concept, public spaces and meeting rooms.
Natural scrapped woods and raw steel panels feature predominantly in the redesign, as well as sculptures of welded metal scaffolding repurposed from studio soundstages and rusted perforated screens. A sliding screen off the lobby opens up to a semi-private media space outfitted with seating and a sculptural light fixture.
Black and white murals from San Francisco-based visual artist Eddy De Leon decorate guest rooms, which contain modern and minimalistic furnishings in shades of black, white and gray with red accents.
A circular fireplace frames the hotel’s residential-like lobby. The entry area flows seamlessly into the adjacent lounge where black corrugated steel walls, raw concrete floors, and a soundstage ceiling rigged with truss and pipe give the space a sultry ambiance and set the scene for the action within. Open seating options create a social environment allowing guests to effortlessly transition between meals, work, meetings and fun. Connected to the lounge is a game room with a dartboard, shuffleboard table, pool table, Skee Ball, video games and dual 4K Ultra HD TVs.
The hotel’s eight event spaces have been redesigned, including the expanded Premiere Ballroom with doors that open to the adjacent game room. Adjacent to that area is Double Take, the hotel’s new restaurant, which is separated by a rolling 14-foot backdrop of an 8,000-lb. gorilla.
Led by Executive Chef Bryan Podgorski, the restaurant offers modern American cuisine. Grab-and-go snacks and salads are also available to guests until 3 p.m. daily.
