Town’s latest gem blends luxurious and refined escapism to offer company the final word non-public hideaway.
Following Sommerro’s grand opening in September 2022 as Oslo’s first luxurious neighborhood lodge, the property introduced right now the launch of Villa Inkognito, a personal 11-suite retreat positioned subsequent door. A uncommon gem providing a mixture of luxurious and escapism in Oslo’s vibrant West Finish, Villa Inkognito is exclusive to Oslo as the one city villa out there to e-book in its entirety or on a person room foundation. With highlights starting from thoughtfully designed bedrooms to unmatched personalised service, Villa Inkognito is a sublime oasis meticulously designed to be the final word house away from house.
Initially constructed as a personal residence in 1870 by architect Thøger Binneballe, Villa Inkognito has taken on many iterations all through the years. Most notably the constructing was utilized because the workplace house for the Oslo Lysverker administration, town’s authentic electrical firm, within the Fifties earlier than housing the Algerian embassy from 1980. Now a part of Sommerro, this iconic constructing has come full circle with a brand new lease on life as a personal villa, providing the final word in seclusion with its personal devoted hidden entrance. Visitors are pampered with a private host to make their keep as straightforward and seamless as attainable, whereas having fun with full entry to all of Sommerro’s facilities and providers, together with seven eating places and bars, assembly and occasion areas with capability for as much as 150 individuals, a 100-seat gilded theatre, a landmark wellness house that includes historic public baths, and town’s first year-round rooftop pool, sauna, and terrace.
Bespoke Designs from GRECODECO
Designed to seize the texture of a really trendy non-public house, Villa Inkognito comes alive by way of the imaginative and prescient of GRECODECO, the New York- and London-based studio that additionally directed the inside design of Sommerro’s residing and social areas. The GRECODECO crew delved into the historic constructing’s previous to create inside areas embellished with a mixture of antiques, authentic art work, ornamental particulars, and traditional Scandinavian furnishings. The villa’s bedrooms, which vary in measurement from cozy Normal Rooms to large-scale Suites and the uber-private Tower Room, are impressed by a variety of eras together with Basic Norwegian, Artwork Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, and a little bit of Japonisme. The bedrooms boast opulent particulars and luxurious textiles, equivalent to custom-designed furnishings with marquetried particulars recalling nineteenth century Norwegian motifs, bespoke hand-knotted rugs, beds from revolutionary Swedish sleep model Hilding Anders, and dreamy loos with {custom} tiles.
Vibrant Public Areas
A sequence of distinctly themed rooms, each chromatically and in spirit, make up the general public areas of Villa Inkognito. The non-public entrance, separate from Sommerro’s foremost doorways, provides a black and white colour scheme adorned with vintage wallpaper from the U.S. The visitor journey advances with every room in a wildly totally different colour scheme, very similar to Dorothy’s expertise after the crash touchdown of her home into technicolor Oz. Visitors can collect in a number of well-appointed residing rooms, together with a library, lounge, eating room, and open kitchen, the place a personal chef serves breakfast dishes for each style, together with a health room within the basement and an outside space. Visitors staying at Villa Inkognito can prepare non-public dinners and order in-suite eating from the most effective of Sommerro’s celebrated eating places, whereas additionally having the chance to get pleasure from in-room wellness therapies from the specialists at Vestkantbadet.
Customized First Class Service
At Villa Inkognito, privateness is essential. Every keep is dealt with with discretion and courtesy from pre-arrival to departure. The Girl of the Home ensures everybody looks like a private visitor of the villa to create a memorable and welcoming keep like no different. Personal hosts are readily available to curate a keep that makes probably the most of this extraordinary haven, whether or not that is shaking up a cocktail or two at Spectre, the retreat’s intimate and comfortable bar, or personally exhibiting company the easiest Frogner has to supply. Along with bespoke service within the villa, company will get pleasure from precedence reservations at Sommerro’s convivial brasserie Ekspedisjonshallen, Izakaya Bar & Terrace, and TAK, the lodge’s Nordic-Japanese rooftop restaurant helmed by the award-winning chef Frida Ronge.
Dedicated to a Sustainable Future
Sommerro made its mark as Norway’s largest-ever preservation venture, with Villa Inkognito following in its footsteps because it upholds and enhances Nordic Inns & Resorts’ dedication to eco-sustainability. With the villa’s interiors amazingly intact, each effort attainable was made to renovate, refurbish, repolish, and repurpose the entire historic constructing’s present supplies, flooring, and textiles. GRECODECO was additionally capable of preserve the unique structure of the rooms on the general public flooring and protect the flowery plaster ceilings with their detailed moldings and central medallions which had been distinctive to every room. Unique stone remaining from the renovation has been repurposed into décor items equivalent to stone vases, and extra textiles have discovered new life within the villa’s vibrant public areas and heat suites.
Sustainability extends past the tactile with the “Sommerro Requirements,” a set of 9 benchmarks the lodge makes use of to information all day-to-day operations, partnerships, and insurance policies that reach to Villa Inkognito. The requirements deal with conventional environmental safety measures equivalent to recycling and thoroughly choosing the varieties of elements used within the kitchen and visitor facilities, in addition to the supplies used within the villa’s restoration, all the way down to the employees uniforms. “Sommerro Requirements” additionally emphasize the significance of preserving and defending psychological well being of its employees, alongside assist of locally-owned companies and group initiatives. Villa Inkognito follows Sommerro’s 8-hour rule for workers to make sure work-life steadiness is at all times thought of – 8 hours of labor, 8 hours of enjoyable, and eight hours of sleep. The lodge prides itself on fostering a very inclusive, collaborative, and pleasurable house for each workers and guests alike.
About Sommerro
Set inside a restored landmark Nineteen Thirties constructing in Frogner, one of many oldest neighborhoods in Oslo within the metropolis’s West Finish, Sommerro is a celebration of Norwegian design, fusing type and performance to grow to be town’s first artwork deco lodge and a contemporary tribute to Norwegian cultural heritage. Occupying the unique constructing of the previous headquarters of Oslo Lysverker, town’s authentic electrical firm, and a newly designed extension, the lodge options 231 rooms and luxurious suites, 4 eating places, three bars, a sprawling wellness house that brings again town’s public baths, a sequence of historic assembly and occasion rooms, and a rooftop terrace. Sommerro is a two-minute stroll to the native practice station, offering easy accessibility to Oslo Airport and past, and inside shut proximity to a number of the metropolis’s prime points of interest such because the Oslo Opera Home and MUNCH. Sommerro is fueled by renewable power, and native electrical transport. The lodge is a member of Most well-liked Inns & Resorts.
Villa Inkognito
Sommerrogata 1
Oslo, 0255
Norway
