Soho House in Berlin, Germany
Well, not quite. This is a rather posh private members’ club in an eight story restored Bauhaus building in the famous Mitte district in Berlin. But, for you history buff, this building was commandeered during wartime and was actively used by the post-war Communist regime until 1956. After that the building was turned over to be used as the Communist Party archives and historical institution. In fact, it was not until the reunification of Germany that the building was returned to the descendants of its rightful owners.
As I told you in a previous post, our niece was studying in Germany and so we decided to visit her. And since the point of this trip was the give our niece a nice little break from her schooling, there was no reason not to indulge a little.
Well, we discovered a whole other interesting (and a bit strange) level of privilege and luxury at the elite and exclusive Soho House. Soho House Berlin is Soho House Group’s first outside-UK European property and its largest so far. This private member’s sort-of-resort does also offer non-members with its enticing members-only spaces, hotel suites, roof-top pool several restaurant brands and the Cowshed spa brand.
In-house designer Susie Atkinson and London-based Michaelis Boyd Associates collaboration gives this place a strange blend of 1930’s plush glamor mixed with retro industrial nostalgia. Though there is plenty of well-padded, rich velvet, it is offset by a mix of exposed concrete and dark paneling and hard visual angularity. The upscale rooms offer custom beds, rainforest showers, flat screens TVs and in-house Cowshed spa products. To complete the sense of restoration in nostalgia, some rooms have restored vintage record players and vinyl LPs.
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