Hotel Miramonte
The owners of the Miramonte gave the hotel a special mix of 60s charm and modern design. Restored wooden elements, newly upholstered armchairs, design classics and specially made pieces characterise the hotel, which is constantly evolving β with colour as an important design element.
- Photos:
- KEIM
- Location:
- Bad Gastein, Austria
- Products:
- Interior Paints
Attractant colour
When Evelyn and Ike Ikrath, she a hotel manager and passionate hostess, he an architect, acquired the Miramonte in 2008, they deliberately wanted to preserve its brittle 1960s charm: The floors were refurbished, wooden fixtures restored, chairs reupholstered and reupholstered. They were joined by design classics that make every architect's heart beat faster and unique pieces that were designed especially for the hotel. It is this mix of old and new and the generous use of colour that gives the house its unmistakable character.
"The Miramonte is a hotel for free spirits with an interest in design, art and architecture and it is a work in progress," explains Ike Ikrath. "We are constantly discovering new aspects and love change. Colour plays a very important role in this."
Poetry of colour design
The poetry of colour design is reflected in the redesigned rooms of the Hotel Miramonte. This is also the merit of the colour designer and colour artist Ernst Muthwill from Hallein, who was commissioned with the colour concept.
'The colour is already there anyway, because every person has a very intuitive and correct feeling for the colours that suit them and do them good,' Muthwill is convinced of this.
At the on-site appointment at Miramonte, a small team of colour enthusiasts gathered to go through the house together in terms of colours. For Muthwill, the process of finding colours together is the prerequisite for a successful design:
'It's about making the potential of the rooms and the users' attitude to life visible. It is important to me that a colour design suits everyone, because only then is it authentic and only then do rooms transform into living spaces.'
Fascinating colour compositions
With intuitive certainty, Muthwill selected delicate, intense and sometimes daring colour compositions using the colour chart. The design was further developed or modified based on suggestions and objections from the colour team, until all parties involved agreed with all the proposed colours.
The result is impressive. The shades of blue in the entrance are extremely inviting, the dining room entices with warm orange and pink, refreshed and stabilised by delicate or bright blue nuances.
In the bar, a triad of red, ochre and pink captivates, appearing all the more atmospheric the darker it gets. Warm grey grounds the composition of delicate pink, bright red and strong yellow-green in the co-working space and leads to the fresh blue-grey of the yoga room. This way, the path through the house leads through fascinating colour worlds, giving each room its very own mood.
Convincing mineral colour strength
The extraordinary colour strength of the mineral paints is due to the high quality of the raw materials and the careful production. The water glass binder used by KEIM is transparent and allows light rays to strike the purest inorganic pigments unhindered, reflecting them crystalline at a specific angle and thus colouring the material. The result is unrivalled depth of colour combined with a velvety matt surface effect. The colour tone becomes the colour body.
It was precisely this architectural approach that was important to the Ikraths: 'A precisely defined form, clear contrasts, a coherent structure of the individual parts, a unity of form and colour. We wanted to implement this aspiration even more strongly in the Miramonte. And we succeeded, thanks to Ernst Muthwill and interior colours from KEIM. We enjoy the new colours - they make us happy, inspire, excite - and do so every day anew.'
