Facts about the Rival 2010

Facts about The Rival Hotel
The Rival Hotel in brief
Historical background
A hotel with four stars and five hearts!
The Rival Hotel opened 1st September 2003.
The Rival Cinema was inaugurated in 1937 at
Mariatorget in Stockholm. The building was a combined entertainment establishment with a cinema, a
hotel, a restaurant, a patisserie and apartments.
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Stockholm’s first boutique hotel. 99 hotel rooms,
194 beds. 2 suites, 1 executive double room, 25
de luxe rooms (twin/king), 31 superior rooms
(twin/queen), 36 standard rooms (twin/queen),
4 single rooms.
All hotel rooms are equipped with 32” plasma
screens, DVD/CD-players, cable for connecting
laptop with loudspeakers in the rooms, fixed and
wireless internet access, hair dryer, iron, ironing
board, safe and minibar. The suites are equipped
with 32” LCD-screens. Other facilities include
parking service, 24 hrs room service, shoe
polishing service and shirt laundry service over
night.
A collection of more than 150 DVD movies is
available free-of-charge for the hotel guests. The
suites and deluxe rooms are permanently equipped
with 4-10 DVD movies.
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Bar&Bistro, Cocktailbar, Café Rival, bakery.
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The Rival Theatre with space for 700 people and
five conference rooms for 8-85 persons.
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Managing Director, Caroline Eriksson.
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Hotel Rival AB, Mariatorget 3,
P.O. Box 17525, SE-118 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
Telephone +46 (0)8 545 789 00.
Fax
+46 (0)8 545 789 24.
www.rival.se
[email protected]
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The Rival Hotel is a wholly owned subsidiary to
Benny Andersson Produktion AB.
Cultural and Architectural Values
The building is of great historical value as it was one
of the first establishments where a variety of
entertainments and leisure activities were mixed. The
hotel, restaurant with a café, patisserie and cinema
were integrated into the building as was the car
mechanic shop in the basement. Plans existed to
convert the cinema to a theatre with a revolving
stage, which had already been prepared underneath
the stage floor.
The Rival Theatre has great architectural values
which can be seen in the spacious foyers divided into
three levels, the wide staircases with elegant handrails, the depth and width of the stairs, the stage and
the façade of the balcony.
The uniqueness of the press chamber with its own
entrance and the microphone lodge are of particular
cinema historical value.
Renovations and Expansion 2002-2003
The most important criteria was to recreate the
holistic essence enabling the activities of the building
to dovetail in a natural manner and to allow free
access between the cinema, the bistro and the hotel.
The façade facing Mariatorget has been kept and
recreated in its original nuance of light plaster and
carefully renovated wooden windows in the hotel
and bistro. Each hotel room in the courtyard wing
has French windows for more light.
Owner: Benny Andersson
Göran Eriksson, Project Managere
Anders Bergkrantz, Architect ,Karin Ahlgren, Interior Architect
Hotel Rival AB, Mariatorget 3, P.O. Box 17525, SE-118 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)8 545 789 00, Fax: +46 (0)8 545 789 24, VAT No: SE-556591-9775, www.rival.se
Hotel rooms (99 rooms, 194 beds)
The idea behind the interior design has been to create a
colourful and multi-facetted environment, stretching
from the festive original interior of the cocktail bar to
more contemporary design. Everyone should feel most
welcome here! The rooms have been planned with two
main intentions; classical rather than trendy and
comfortable rather than luxurious.
An openness between the bathroom and room
and with as large a window as possible, with a
view from the bathroom.
Warmth and care when it comes to the choice
of materials used, with yellow-stained birch
panelling in the entrance.
Worked details with patterns and milled handles
on cupboards. Wooden blinds in the same
material in front of the bathroom windows.
The inner wall of the bathroom is covered in glass
mosaic of various colours. Marble on the floors. Pleasant
lighting with light pillars with blasted glass on each side
of a large mirror. Marble interior in bathtubs in all de
luxe rooms and suites.
Special details such as coloured knobs and towel racks.
Lots of surprises! The beds are model Gullö from Lagans
and have more than 1,000 jointly double-twined spirals.
Bed linen made of Egypitan Cotton, duvet covers, pillow
menu – in all 99 rooms.
The cinema theme dominates the room with a movie
motif on canvas or glass-covered positioned above the
bed and surrounded by a generous velvet curtain. The
motifs feature movies from SF dating back from 1924
onwards. The movie motifs are matched against various
colour schemes, often in a strong colour.
The large 32” TV plasma screen is built in a cupboard
including DVD/CD-player and Playstation. Fixed and
wireless broadband in all rooms.
Divan Metropolitan. Design Lievore Asocoados.
Bed Gullö from DUX/Lagans, bed linen from
Gastaldis/Amotto and teddy bears from Debenhams.
The Rival offers a special pillow menu!
The type of armchairs vary depending on the size of the
room, but all are comfortable with special designs in
material such as aluminium, leather and velvet.
The oak floors have woollen carpets in varied colours.
The rooms for handicapped persons are generous in size
with large bathrooms fulfilling all standard requirements.
A special design features a silvery mosaique wall and
bench in Corian.
The hotel rooms in the new wing are characterized by
lacquer red panelling in the entrance and birch furniture.
Sony Plasma screen 32”. KZ-32TS1.
DVD/CD-player and CD discs in all rooms.
At The Rival more than 150 DVD movies are
available for hotel guests, free-of-charge.. Erotic movies
are not included in The Rival’s movie collection.
Hotel Rival AB, Mariatorget 3, P.O. Box 17525, SE-118 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)8 545 789 00, Fax: +46 (0)8 545 789 24, VAT No: SE-556591-9775, www.rival.se
The Bistro
Robust feeling of southern Stockholm with dark oak
floors and yellow-stained panelling. Colourful Persian
nomad carpets in the inner part of the bistro.
The wall panelling is made of a framework of 924 film
star images along the long wall (see photo to the right)
and the facing wall is covered with portraits of authors
and artists who live in the area. Film star images design
Carouschka Streiffert.
The Private Lounge
A tight club environment in the narrow room with a
slanting ceiling stretching between the façade and
Mariatorget and the view of Maria Magdalena Church to
the east.
Several seating options with sofas and armchairs (Tondo
armchairs, see photo to the right). Great comfort, small
tables placed close to each other and naturally, a piano. In
the hallway one meets a delightful wall featuring 50 or
more musical scores, carefully mounted behind glass.
A tight combination of nomad carpets in different
colours cover large portions of the wooden floor. The
lighting is both festive and intimate. Silk curtains and
drapes in different colour schemes cover the whole area.
In the suites these are augmented by organza in silver and
gold. In 2007 Karin Ahlgren designed a dinner table
which was produced by Claes Tarras, Helgalundens
Snickerier. Eight classical Y-chairs designed by Hans J
Wegner completed this set of furniture.
The Cocktail Bar
The cocktail bar, photo lower right, with the foyers and
the actual cinema, are the best kept parts of the hotel.
The bar has been carefully adapted to contemporary
requirements for serving capacity but has kept its shape.
A semi-circular light- and glass chandelier is hung above
the counter both to increase storage capacity but also to
emphasize the central position of the bar. The adjoining
sofas have been upholstered with red velvet.
Wall featuring musical scores
Tondo armchairs in The Rival’s entrance foyer
In the cocktail bar there is possibly the world’s
smallest dance floor!
Hotel Rival AB, Mariatorget 3, P.O. Box 17525, SE-118 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)8 545 789 00, Fax: +46 (0)8 545 789 24, VAT No: SE-556591-9775, www.rival.se
Level 7 – suites
The top floor is reflecting light but also a feeling of
actually being in an attic; elegance over the rooftops!
White washed floors and walls are the form. The
bathrooms are light and luxurious with white carrarra
marble and brass, a bubble bath and complete glass wall
facing the room.
Carpet Monroe. Design Gunilla Lagerhem Ullberg.
The beds are low and wide. White sheep skin acts as feet
blankets. A few comfortable armchairs soft rugs of pale
wool. One rug is deep pink with a scatter of glitter.
The overall wood used in panels and cupboards etc is
light coloured oak. All lamps are made of brass with
white shades. The photo to the right shows suite 704.
Corridor Carpeting
The corridor carpeting and film star images are designed by
Carouschka Streiffert, interior designer (SIR), artist, set
designer and exhibition architect. Carouschka has her own business
since 1978 and also teaches at arts schools. Carouschka has
designed the glass series ”Is i doran” for Pukeberg and she also
designs carpets exclusively made for one customer. Carouschka has
had c:a 50 separate exhibitions and c:a 50 combined exhibitions as
an artist.
The carpeting in the corridors has various functions. It
absorbs the sounds caused by important communications
flows in the building. The carpets also give you a hint of
where you are, a sign of location. That is why every level
has its distinct carpet design.
Carouschka creates carpets in an unusual way. She uses a
technique of collage i.e. tears, cuts ”urban paper waste”
which she carefully pieces together in a balanced, yet
lively pattern.
Exempel på mönster, korridormatta.
The carpets are hand-woven of 100% New Zealand
wool.
The wall lights (Kava) in the hotel corridor are mounted
at a low level next to each hotel room, which reflects a
light picture on the floor, showing the room number
edged in the glass. (Annell Ljus+Form)
Hotel Rival AB, Mariatorget 3, P.O. Box 17525, SE-118 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)8 545 789 00, Fax: +46 (0)8 545 789 24, VAT No: SE-556591-9775, www.rival.se
Details at The Rival
In addition to the large movie motifs in the hotel rooms
there are a number of features aimed at adding extra
quality to the overall environment. In the deluxe rooms
and suites there is a specially carved marble cup for a bar
of soap. In some rooms you will find a bronze frog
sitting on the edge of the bath tub. All rooms have an
oval shaped basin designed by Ingegerd Råman.
Two large pots in terracotta are purchased directly from
Ingegerd
Råman’s
exhibition
at
Millesgården
(27/4 - 31/8 2003). These are placed at either side of the
hotel entrance with apollon trees.
Lamps by Philippe Starck are placed on the Meeting &
Event counter in the entrance foyer. Photo to the right.
A large section of novels, fact books about Stockholm,
the borough of Södermalm and movies are available in
the Private Lounge. Children’s books fill the shelves of
room no 222, 322 and 422.
The general areas of the hotel and all hotel rooms are
constantly filled with art works in various forms and
other exciting interior design details.
A varied selection of Ingegerd Råman’s production for
Orrefors is scattered in hotel rooms, the lobby, corridors
and in the Bistro. They comprise vases in different
shapes, bowls and lanterns for candle lights.
POND, a clear glass platter with edged patterns in five
different sizes. The next smallest of the platters specially
manufactured for The Rival Hotel.
Bowl and vase I CHING in two different sizes.
FROZEN GLASS, bowl Studio, an exclusive edition of
only 15 pieces.
GLASS DRAWINGS are vases with five different
patterns; Trassel, Rutor, Ringar, Perstorp and Gräs.
BRIGHTHANDLE door handles, light up the door
handles on a dozen unisex rest rooms in the Cocktail Bar
and in the Lower Foyer.
Hotel Rival AB, Mariatorget 3, P.O. Box 17525, SE-118 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)8 545 789 00, Fax: +46 (0)8 545 789 24, VAT No: SE-556591-9775, www.rival.se
The Rival’s Bistro (seating for 90)
Café Rival
A Stockholm bistro with the typically Swedish
ingredients ”mustard, horseradish and dill”, as its base!
Simplicity is a core value. Swedish classics well
recognized by the guests. In the summer 2008 the
Bistro was renovated and designed sofas, tables, chairs
together with curtains and designed lighteneing has
added on something extra to the popular dinner spot
for locals and hotel guests.
Breakfast, lunches, bread from the bakery, cookies,
delicatessen, beer, wine, smoothies, all varieties of
coffee. Outside seating in the summer. Wall
decorations with photographs signed by Ulla Montan
2006.
The Bistro Bar & The Cocktail Bar
Breakfast
Served in the Bistro. The grand buffet with a generous
breakfast also offert a hot breakfast menu included in
the breakfast price. The breakfast chef serves scrambled
eggs, bacon, sausages, pancakes etc. Morning news
papers from Sweden, Scandinavia, Europe and the US.
A great bar for hanging out. Good wines by the glass. A
bar to start the evening or to round off the night.
Before or after work. Before or after dinner. Several
evenings during the week the best music is offered by the
house DJ. Photos below from the Bistro Bar and foyers.
The grand armatuer designed by Jaime Heyon “Josephine
Queen 6.3”
When the breakfast serving has closed here, you can
also have breakfast at Café Rival. Breakfast is served in
your room 24 hrs.
Hotel Rival AB, Mariatorget 3, P.O. Box 17525, SE-118 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)8 545 789 00, Fax: +46 (0)8 545 789 24, VAT No: SE-556591-9775, www.rival.se
Meeting & Events
The Rival Cinema, with seating for 700 people and possibilities
to broadcast TV-programs, host lectures and fashion shows, to
our Creative Room for truly different work sessions for up to 8
people.
Vinga conference table and chair in the Board Room.
The Rival Hotel can offer plenty of ways of making small or big
meetings into something special. All our conference facilities
have excellent ventilation and are equipped with the latest
technology. Outside the Theatre there are generous lobbies on
three levels with possibilities for exhibitions, buffets and
mingling.
The Rival Theatre
484 seats stalls
225 seats balcony
Large stage 6x12 m
Ceiling height on the stage 7,6 m
Rivalen
95 m²
85 persons, theatre style
28 persons, U-shape style
Maria 1 & 2
30 + 35 m²
48 persons, theatre style
Creative Room
8 persons
Board Room
8 persons
All conference rooms are equipped with LCD-projector, DVD,
video, OH-projector, sound equipment, fixed and wireless
broadband access.
In the Cinema and Rivalen there is also a user-friendly touch
panel to adjust light, sound and the LCD-projector. The
Cinema is also equipped with OB for TV-recordings and live
broadcasts.
In the foyers there are fixed and wireless broadband access.
Sony
In collaboration with Sony Sweden all hotel rooms
have a 32” plasma TV, a separate DVD/CD-player
and loudspeakers both in the room and in the
bathroom. The suites are equipped with 32” LCD
screens. New LCD-projectors have been installed in
January 2008. January 2009 a new LCD proj for the
cinema will be installed, Sony FW300L.
In the public area - the bars, bistro, lifts and foyers Sony is in charge of all music transportation. The
zone amplifiers make it possible to adjust the volume
at specific locations. The Private Lounge on level 7
has surround sound.
Double systems with two screens enable
simultaneous PowerPoint-presentations in the
conference room Rivalen ( photo below ).
For more info, www.sony.se
Hotel Rival AB, Mariatorget 3, P.O. Box 17525, SE-118 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)8 545 789 00, Fax: +46 (0)8 545 789 24, VAT No: SE-556591-9775, www.rival.se
The Rival’s Logo and Profile
” To visualize The Rival Hotel was a challenge as there was so
much to take in. I chose to display a vision in the form of a
poster using typographical lettering in a colourful tivoli-style
linking the building year 1937 with modern times. It gives a
highly personal image, unlike any other hotel, but there again
there is no other hotel to compete with The Rival and its unique
contents. The image, which is featured in four colours and also in
red and black, is applied on everything from letter heads to
business cards. For The Rival Hotel’s logo I have chosen to
feature the image in the form of a projected key hole.“
Maria Dahlgren is the art director and designer.
Maria’s design can be seen worldwide through the
chain of stores ”Ordning&Reda” which she helped to
start in 1982. Maria’s strength is to develop company
identities into strong brands as well as to visualise and
inspire.
Metagram Art AB
Telephone
+46 (0)8 651 21 91
E-mail
[email protected]
Public Relations, Press requests
[email protected]
Telephone
+46 (0)8 545 789 00
Photographing and filming in The Rival Hotel’s
hotel rooms and all public areas with the
intention to publish is only permitted after
agreement.
Safety & Environment
In cooperation with Alanya, a security firm, The Rival
Hotel has worked out a safety system with continuous
training of its staff. The building housing The Rival
Hotel is supplied with a complete sprinkler system
( except for the cinema ). Safety and health policies
can be found and printed out from our website:
www.rival.se/Facts.
Finally, 4 P offered to our guests at The Rival
Hotel:
• No pornographic movies in The Rival’s movie selection.
• No ”pissoars”
• No parasol in your drink!
• No ”praliné” on your pillow
Photographs in this information leaflet by: Nicho Södling,
Daniel Augustsén, Peter Novara, Daniel Lindberg, Tommy
Bäcklin, Pressens Bild among others.
All photos and logotypes are protected and may not be
used without prior approval by The Rival Hotel.
March 2010
Hotel Rival AB, Mariatorget 3, P.O. Box 17525, SE-118 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)8 545 789 00, Fax: +46 (0)8 545 789 24, VAT No: SE-556591-9775, www.rival.se
Project Management
Building Entrepreneur
Byggsamordnare i Sverige AB are responsible for the whole
building project. The company has for nearly 20 years worked with
building project management and extensively with renovations of
hotels and restaurants.
Sundvalls Bygg & Fastighets AB was founded by Åke
Sundvalls more than 60 years ago. In 1989 the business was
divided into two separate companies; Sundvalls Byggnads
AB, (building construction) and Sundvalls Fastighets AB
(property developer and management services).
Byggsamordnare i Sverige AB
Göran Eriksson, Project Manager
Since the autumn of 2003 there is also a cooperation
with the architect Lars-Erik Zellinger.
Main Architect
Bergkrantz Arkitekter AB, established in 1987. The
company is headed by Anders Bergkrantz and employs 25
members of staff together with Arkitekt Magasinet AB.
Bergkrantz Arkitekter AB
Anders Bergkrantz, Architect SAR/MSA
Telephone
+46 (0)8 555 924 00
Interior Design
Ahlgren Edblom Arkitekter AB was founded in 1982 by
Karin Ahlgren and Mats Edblom. The company has developed
into an interior design and reconstruction project division with
Karin Ahlgren in charge and a building and construction project
with Mats Edblom in charge.
Ahlgren Edblom Arkitekter AB
Karin Ahlgren, Architect SIR
Telephone +46 (0)8 644 95 70
E-mail
[email protected]
The company holds a certificate for the quality system BF9K,
issued by the Stockholm Association of Building Contractors.
The reconstruction of The Rival covers approx. 6,500
m² comprising hotel section, bistro, cinema and
conference facilities, a new extension with 15 hotel
rooms facing the courtyard and conversion of the
former Lilla Maria to a café, bakery and bread shop.
The reconstruction also entailed substitution of all
previous installations, new hotel room solution and
new surface materials. An exterior wall has been
demolished to make way for an extension building
made on top of the existing cinema.
The extension building is built with a steel frame and
using a light-weight building technique. A new roof is
constructed on top of level 7 which houses the new
suites. New elevator shafts permeate the building with
a total of 4 elevators. A new ventilation system has
been installed with cool air circulation, water drainage
and heating system have been completely renewed.
The building is equipped with a complete sprinkler
system except for the cinema, which does not contain
sprinklers on grounds of preservation. The cinema has
been reconstructed with new ventilation and new
curtains. The existing seats have been renovated and
then re-positioned and the stage has been extended.
Adolfsson & Partner re-designed the Bistro during
summer 2008.
Supplier and Coordinator of interior decorating
Brighthandle – illuminating door
www.brighthandle.com, +46 (0)8 23 30 60
Adolfsson & Partners is an experienced entrepreneur
operating in the building and interior design business. The company
involves in project planning, building, interior design and delivers
furnishings to hotels, conference centres, restaurants, shops, offices
and homes.
Adolfsson & Partners AB
Telephone +46 (0)8-545 498 50
E-mail
[email protected]
January 2009
Hotel Rival AB, Mariatorget 3, P.O. Box 17525, SE-118 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)8 545 789 00, Fax: +46 (0)8 545 789 24, VAT No: SE-556591-9775, www.rival.se
handles.