American studio HVS Design and London-based Alexander Waterworth Interiors have collaborated on this hotel close to Yale University, where a tech boom is resulting in a wave of hospitality projects.
The Blake Hotel opened in January 2019, steps away from the Ivy League university, in a buzzing downtown corridor of New Haven, Connecticut.

The recent increase of similar projects in the area has been fuelled by an influx of software, biotech, and medical research businesses, driving up demand for contemporary boutique accommodation options.
Others include the Graduate New Haven in the former Duncan Hotel, a Hilton Garden Inn within the Webster Bank building, and an IKEA-backed conversion of Marcel Breuer's modernist Pirelli building into a 165-room hotel.
Named after Yale's first female graduate, Alice Blake, The Blake Hotel is intended as a design-conscious, extended-stay hotel with a culinary focus.

"The creators Randy and Claire Salvatore found that there was a demand for elevated accommodations, with Yale University as a destination for academics and the expanding food scene," said a statement on behalf of the hotel.
"So they created a place that would appeal to a more sophisticated traveler, and incorporated a lot of New York power players from the food world."

The lobby interprets the "subtle sophistication" of traditional New England aesthetic, while balancing cues to nature and industry in its design. Refined woodwork and leather uphol...