The former Melrose Hotel in Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood has completed a renovation project that includes a redesign, a new name, and a new restaurant and lounge concept.
Leo A Daly’s Dallas branch led the redesign, which used texture and tactile elements to add subtle luxury to the new Melrose Georgetown Hotel.
Traditional interiors have updated colors and a new art collection of classic photographs, stylized prints, and chromatic artwork. The color palette includes parchment and gunmetal grays, along with splashes of patriotic colors like indigo blue, cinnabar red and currency green. The finishes include stone flooring, dark woods, and granite accents. The mythological griffin, symbolizing power, vigilance, courage and determination, appears on the building’s façade, in the entry flooring, and in other locations throughout the property.
The Melrose Georgetown Hotel’s 240 guestrooms have interiors by Pat Miller in an upscale contemporary style. The guestrooms include acrylic art displays and furnishings with clean lines in shades of gray, navy and cream with green accents.
Off the lobby, a library houses more than 1,000 classics in a space that offers ambient lighting, semi-private alcoves, leather seating areas for private conversation and plug-and-play nooks.
The Jardenea restaurant and lounge, which was introduced last year, serves Executive Chef Nate Lindsay’s seasonal menu, using as many locally sourced ingredients as possible. The space has cool colors and sharp lines, as well as communal seating options and fresh herb centerpieces. One wall displays vintage plates; the space also has suspended glass panels with painted chandeliers.
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