The glamour of Kraków's interwar cafes and the clean functionalism of its mid-century modern cinemas informed Paradowski Studio's renovation of the Puro Hotel.
Opened in 2013, the Stare Miasto hotel by Polish hotel brand Puro is located next to the city's historic old town and spans 138 rooms alongside an extensive open-plan reception, lobby space and restaurant.
Red marbled tiles line the floor of the hotel's lobby (top and above)
Local design office Paradowski Studio, run by Zuza and Piotr Paradowski, overhauled its interior by blending the "chic of a bygone Kraków" with contemporary details and craftsmanship.
In particular, the design was informed by the cafes and restaurants that flourished in the city between the first and second world war. The lobby features undulating marbled stone tables
These venues, the duo explained, were glamorous destinations frequented by journalists, artists and intellectuals and "more or less fifty-fifty Polish and Jewish-owned".
"We took inspiration from the layouts of the interwar places and how they combined restaurant, cafe and bar in one space," Zuza Paradowska told Dezeen.
"The ground floor space at Puro can be easily changed from a day bar, cafe and bakery to a cosy night bar."
A wooden bas-relief hides three doors
Due to world war two and the long period of communist rule that followed, very few examples of these venues survive in the city, so the studio looked for additional inspiration in l...