HOTEL PULITZER, AMSTERDAM
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The Pulitzer hotel in Amsterdam has everything going for it. It’s flanked by two canals; is surrounded by some of the city’s best boutiques and restaurants and is a short walk from several of its most famous tourist attractions; and it has just undergone a three-year renovation under the guidance of Creative Director Jacu Strauss, formerly senior designer at Tom Dixon’s Design Research Studio. Little wonder that Condé Nast bill it as “the best new hotel in Amsterdam”. Of course, the Pulitzer is not actually new; it’s not even new as a hotel. Originally 25 separate four-hundred year-old canal houses, the first 12 of which were turned into a hotel by Peter Pulitzer in 1960, it is a glorious hotchpotch of buildings, each on a slightly different level and connected by a maze of passageways, small flights of stairs and oddly shaped halls. Strauss spent a night in every one of the 225 rooms contemplating how best to make every one work: each has its own character, often based on its past.
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