Palisociety and North 45 Projects have preserved original details at this early 20th-century hotel in Portland, Oregon, which reopened this year as the Hotel Grand Stark.
Originally built in 1908, the building sits across the Willamette River from the city's Downtown area and was formerly known as the Chamberlain Hotel.
Hotel Grand Stark occupies a 1908 building that was originally a hotel, but used until recently as a furniture workshop
Hotel Grand Stark takes its name from the intersection of SE Grand Avenue and SE Stark Street, where an ornate sign advertised the furniture workshop that had occupied the building for the past several decades.
Los Angeles-based hospitality group Palisociety recently took over the property, converting it back to its original use as a 57-room hotel. The guest bedrooms occupy the top three storeys, while the ground floor contains the hotel's public amenities, designed in partnership with local studio North 45 Projects. Marble and green accents are combined in the lobby
A new sign marks the entrance to the hotel, leading guests and local residents to the lobby-cum-art gallery that occupies part of the ground level.
"Hotel Grand Stark is envisioned as a communal, inclusive public space featuring a gallery-inspired central lobby that connects the public spaces upon entry with a neutral backdrop punctuated by a carefully collected art installation featuring local artists and makers, custom furnishings and vintage pieces," said Palisocie...