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HOTEL SOHO’s sophisticated design lends it a cosmopolitan, minimalist and essentially urban character that sets it apart from the city’s other hotels. Its spaces are elegant and peaceful, shaded in grays and whites with special brushstrokes in unexpected shapes and colors. The frosted stained glass adds a special sophisticated touch.
Hotel Soho’s interior and exterior design communicates new sensations and concepts.
The level of this visual stimulus starts off subtly in the lobby, and continues throughout the entire hotel and the rooms, where the process culminates with a momentous change from hot to soft lighting.
Thanks so the participation and collaboration of skilled experts, Hotel Soho is a magnificent synthesis of professionalism and a strong commitment to quality, design and prestige.
Alfredo Arribas.
Founder of Alfredo Arribas Arquitectos Asociados, was born in Barcelona in 1954 and received his degree in Architecture from the School of Architecture of Barcelona in 1977. In 1986, he founded ALFREDO ARRIBAS ARQUITECTOS ASOCIADOS, an architecture firm focused on developing architectonic and urban projects, as well as interior and furniture design. He and his team designed SOHO and B-Hotel for Núñez i Navarro Hotels.
Franc Aleu.
Visual artist, is a regular contributor to la Fura del Baus. He has brought his artistic vision directly to the walls of SOHO in the shape of works created with the Moiré effect, reproducing various parts of the human body. He began as a photographer and has worked for prestigious firms in Spanish fashion and special publications. “Art Futura” introduced him to the world of infography and digital post-production. His audiovisual works include “Gaudí un hombre, un temple” (2002), “Bubbles” (2001) and “The Damnation of Faust” (1999).
Verner Panton.
Was one of Denmark’s most influential architects and designers. He was born in 1926 in Gramtofte (Denmark) and died in 1998 in Copenhagen. In the 60’s he became a master of Pop Style with his revolutionary creations that worked their ways into all sorts of objects related to interior design, architecture, and personal accessories. Panton has inspired several of the elements of SOHO’s decoration, such as the lamps located in the hotel’s common areas that reflect the style that characterized an era.
Undoubtedly, Panton became an “enfant terrible” and developed revolutionary design and architectonic works. He was widely recognized for his innovative architectonic projects, among them, a foldable house (1955), a cardboard house and a plastic house (1960). Towards the end of the 50’s, his chair designs grew more and more unconventional, and the legs and back parts of the chairs were imperceptible. In 1960 Panton designed the first chair made out of pressure-diecast plastic: the S chair, which would later become his most famous and widely reproduced design.
Panton’s work revolutionized furniture, interior and accessory design with its use of color and organic materials. Chairs with unique shapes, lamps that look like globes, and fabrics with psychedelic patterns are among Panton’s innovative and influential designs.
In the early 80’s, Panton designed whole environments with radical and psychedelic interiors. This kind of development then came to incorporate curved furniture, upholstered walls, textiles and lamps.
One of his best-known works is the interior design of a German boat, currently in a famous museum. He is also recognized for his techniques used in circular patterns and cylindrical furniture in a hotel in Europe.
Panton hoped that his furniture, lamps and fabrics would change the lives of their owners: “I made furniture so that one could have a different view of surroundings and a new angle on life.”

