Dutch designer Marcel Wanders describes the eccentric and theatrical spaces he created for the Mondrian Doha hotel, in this movie Dezeen produced for the AHEAD hospitality awards.
The Mondrian Doha hotel opened in October 2017 in the city's West Bay Lagoon neighbourhood. Designed by local firm South West Architecture for the hospitality company SBE, the five-star hotel is shortlisted in the Event Spaces category at the upcoming AHEAD MEA 2018 awards.
Mondrian Doha is a 270-room hotel in the city's West Bay Lagoon neighbourhood
Wanders' Amsterdam-based studio created the interiors for the 270-room hotel, which features a number of grand, extravagant spaces in his distinctive maximalist style.
"The whole hotel is a place of fantasy and surprise," Wanders says in the movie, which Dezeen filmed for AHEAD in London. "It's really a space that is made for theatre." The interiors of the Mondrian Doha hotel are designed by Marcel Wanders
The hotel features a large atrium and lobby space filled with giant white lamps and a black helical staircase that has a balustrade with an ornate cut-out pattern, which extends up over four floors.

The tea room features illuminated white trees and chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, while the swimming-pool is covered by a floral-patterned stained-glass dome.
Other notable spaces include a 2,000-square-metre, 18-metre-high ballroom, while every room in the hotel enjoys a view over the nearby lagoon.
The swimming pool area a...