The Stornoway keyboard player loves the absurd and incongruous style of this converted factory in Berlin’s Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg area
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If the band are ever on tour in Berlin, the Michelberger Hotel is one of our favourite places to stay. It’s in the Friedrichshain district, close to the Oberbaum bridge. It’s an early-20th-century factory transformed into a boutique hotel by a co-operative that includes furniture designer Werner Aisslinger . The rooms are stylised to the point of absurdity, the designers delighting in incongruous decor. One room, Das Golden One, is comically obscene, with gold bedding, a gold en suite and a gold statue of a dog. Other rooms are festooned with bits of rope, bare flex and untreated wood.
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