Room with a View
february 2013 stockholm
Room with a View
Berzelii Park
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Room 512
Lydmar Hotel About a century ago, a Stockholm slum was reborn by royal decree as the majestic Strandvägen Quay. Today, its row of handsome residences is brought into bull’s-eye focus as you balance on a wooden step stool to peer out of the Lydmar Hotel. (These portholes, found only on the fifth floor, provide room 512 with its distinctive nautical flavor.) For kicks, hop on the Djurgården line’s historic tramway and ride around the bay to appreciate details like the ornate lintel that fronts the red-and-gray limestone building (originally in the Wallenberg banker family) at right in this image. The rest of the leafy esplanade’s eclectic styles are best scanned while sipping a beer at the waterside Happy Lounge, off the quay. At the tip of the tiny Blasieholmen Peninsula, the Lydmar once housed the archives of the imposing National Museum, which is so close to the hotel that it makes a gallery visit in robe and slippers tempting. After gazing at Anders Zorn’s Midsummer Dance and other nineteenth-century plein air paintings, you’ll find the hotel’s edgy photo and art exhibits a welcome counterpoint. You might even live it up at an album release party in the terrace restaurant, or savor a plate of pilgrim mussels while you devour a Scandinavian thriller. Just don’t get a tattoo.–John Oseid Go to condenasttraveler.com/ rwav for a slide show of 25 years of “Room with a View,” with 305 photos from around the world.
128 CONDÉ NAST TRAVELER
There are 45 rooms; doubles start at $485. Room 512, a Medium, is $582 (46-8-22-31-60).
CondeNastTRAVELER.COM
photograph by gentl & hyers
Stockholm
Room with a View
Berzelii Park
ST
RA
ND
VÄ G
EN
NY BR OV Kungsträdgården NY BR IK O E B LA
SI
EH
KA
O
LM
ATAN
ST RÖ MG
Lydmar Hotel
JE
N
N
SG
AT AN
500 FEET
Room 512
Lydmar Hotel About a century ago, a Stockholm slum was reborn by royal decree as the majestic Strandvägen Quay. Today, its row of handsome residences is brought into bull’s-eye focus as you balance on a wooden step stool to peer out of the Lydmar Hotel. (These portholes, found only on the fifth floor, provide room 512 with its distinctive nautical flavor.) For kicks, hop on the Djurgården line’s historic tramway and ride around the bay to appreciate details like the ornate lintel that fronts the red-and-gray limestone building (originally in the Wallenberg banker family) at right in this image. The rest of the leafy esplanade’s eclectic styles are best scanned while sipping a beer at the waterside Happy Lounge, off the quay. At the tip of the tiny Blasieholmen Peninsula, the Lydmar once housed the archives of the imposing National Museum, which is so close to the hotel that it makes a gallery visit in robe and slippers tempting. After gazing at Anders Zorn’s Midsummer Dance and other nineteenth-century plein air paintings, you’ll find the hotel’s edgy photo and art exhibits a welcome counterpoint. You might even live it up at an album release party in the terrace restaurant, or savor a plate of pilgrim mussels while you devour a Scandinavian thriller. Just don’t get a tattoo.–John Oseid Go to condenasttraveler.com/ rwav for a slide show of 25 years of “Room with a View,” with 305 photos from around the world.
128 CONDÉ NAST TRAVELER
There are 45 rooms; doubles start at $485. Room 512, a Medium, is $582 (46-8-22-31-60).
CondeNastTRAVELER.COM
photograph by gentl & hyers
Stockholm
