The town’s latest gem blends luxurious and delicate escapism to supply company the last word personal hideaway.
Following Sommerro’s grand opening in September 2022 as Oslo’s first luxurious neighborhood resort, the property introduced at the moment the launch of Villa Inkognito, a non-public 11-suite retreat positioned subsequent door. A uncommon gem providing a mixture of luxurious and escapism in Oslo’s vibrant West Finish, Villa Inkognito is exclusive to Oslo as the one city villa out there to e book in its entirety or on a person room foundation. With highlights starting from thoughtfully designed bedrooms to unmatched personalised service, Villa Inkognito is a chic oasis meticulously designed to be the last word dwelling away from dwelling.
Initially constructed as a non-public residence in 1870 by architect Thøger Binneballe, Villa Inkognito has taken on many iterations all through the years. Most notably the constructing was utilized because the workplace area for the Oslo Lysverker administration, the town’s unique electrical firm, within the Nineteen Fifties earlier than housing the Algerian embassy from 1980. Now a part of Sommerro, this iconic constructing has come full circle with a brand new lease on life as a non-public villa, providing the last word in seclusion with its personal devoted hidden entrance. Visitors are pampered with a private host to make their keep as straightforward and seamless as doable, whereas having fun with full entry to all of Sommerro’s facilities and companies, together with seven eating places and bars, assembly and occasion areas with capability for as much as 150 folks, a 100-seat gilded theatre, a landmark wellness area that includes historic public baths, and the town’s first year-round rooftop pool, sauna, and terrace.
Bespoke Designs from GRECODECO
Designed to seize the texture of a really fashionable personal dwelling, Villa Inkognito comes alive by the imaginative and prescient of GRECODECO, the New York- and London-based studio that additionally directed the inside design of Sommerro’s residing and social areas. The GRECODECO staff delved into the historic constructing’s previous to create inside areas embellished with a mixture of antiques, unique paintings, ornamental particulars, and basic Scandinavian furnishings. The villa’s bedrooms, which vary in dimension from cozy Normal Rooms to large-scale Suites and the uber-private Tower Room, are impressed by a spread of eras together with Traditional Norwegian, Artwork Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, and a little bit of Japonisme. The bedrooms boast opulent particulars and plush textiles, resembling custom-designed furnishings with marquetried particulars recalling nineteenth century Norwegian motifs, bespoke hand-knotted rugs, beds from revolutionary Swedish sleep model Hilding Anders, and dreamy loos with {custom} tiles.
Vibrant Public Areas
A sequence of distinctly themed rooms, each chromatically and in spirit, make up the general public areas of Villa Inkognito. The personal entrance, separate from Sommerro’s principal doorways, gives a black and white coloration scheme adorned with vintage wallpaper from the U.S. The visitor journey advances with every room in a wildly totally different coloration scheme, very similar to Dorothy’s expertise after the crash touchdown of her home into technicolor Oz. Visitors can collect in a number of well-appointed residing rooms, together with a library, lounge, eating room, and open kitchen, the place a non-public chef serves breakfast dishes for each style, together with a health room within the basement and an out of doors space. Visitors staying at Villa Inkognito can prepare personal dinners and order in-suite eating from the most effective of Sommerro’s celebrated eating places, whereas additionally having the chance to take pleasure in in-room wellness remedies from the consultants at Vestkantbadet.
Personalised First Class Service
At Villa Inkognito, privateness is vital. Every keep is dealt with with discretion and courtesy from pre-arrival to departure. The Woman of the Home ensures everybody looks like a private visitor of the villa to create a memorable and welcoming keep like no different. Personal hosts are readily available to curate a keep that makes probably the most of this extraordinary haven, whether or not that is shaking up a cocktail or two at Spectre, the retreat’s intimate and comfortable bar, or personally displaying company the perfect Frogner has to supply. Along with bespoke service within the villa, company will take pleasure in precedence reservations at Sommerro’s convivial brasserie Ekspedisjonshallen, Izakaya Bar & Terrace, and TAK, the resort’s Nordic-Japanese rooftop restaurant helmed by the award-winning chef Frida Ronge.
Dedicated to a Sustainable Future
Sommerro made its mark as Norway’s largest-ever preservation undertaking, with Villa Inkognito following in its footsteps because it upholds and enhances Nordic Lodges & Resorts’ dedication to eco-sustainability. With the villa’s interiors amazingly intact, each effort doable was made to renovate, refurbish, repolish, and repurpose the entire historic constructing’s current supplies, flooring, and textiles. GRECODECO was additionally in a position to preserve the unique format of the rooms on the general public ground and protect the flowery plaster ceilings with their detailed moldings and central medallions which had been distinctive to every room. Unique stone remaining from the renovation has been repurposed into décor items resembling stone vases, and extra textiles have discovered new life within the villa’s vibrant public areas and heat suites.
Sustainability extends past the tactile with the “Sommerro Requirements,” a set of 9 benchmarks the resort makes use of to information all day-to-day operations, partnerships, and insurance policies that reach to Villa Inkognito. The requirements give attention to conventional environmental safety measures resembling recycling and punctiliously choosing the forms of components used within the kitchen and visitor facilities, in addition to the supplies used within the villa’s restoration, right down to the workers uniforms. “Sommerro Requirements” additionally emphasize the significance of preserving and defending psychological well being of its workers, alongside assist of locally-owned companies and neighborhood initiatives. Villa Inkognito follows Sommerro’s 8-hour rule for workers to make sure work-life steadiness is at all times thought of – 8 hours of labor, 8 hours of enjoyable, and eight hours of sleep. The resort prides itself on fostering a very inclusive, collaborative, and pleasing dwelling for each workers and guests alike.
About Sommerro
Set inside a restored landmark Thirties constructing in Frogner, one of many oldest neighborhoods in Oslo within the metropolis’s West Finish, Sommerro is a celebration of Norwegian design, fusing type and performance to develop into the town’s first artwork deco resort and a contemporary tribute to Norwegian cultural heritage. Occupying the unique constructing of the previous headquarters of Oslo Lysverker, the town’s unique electrical firm, and a newly designed extension, the resort options 231 rooms and luxurious suites, 4 eating places, three bars, a sprawling wellness area that brings again the town’s public baths, a sequence of historic assembly and occasion rooms, and a rooftop terrace. Sommerro is a two-minute stroll to the native prepare station, offering easy accessibility to Oslo Airport and past, and inside shut proximity to a number of the metropolis’s prime sights such because the Oslo Opera Home and MUNCH. Sommerro is fueled by renewable vitality, and native electrical transport. The resort is a member of Most popular Lodges & Resorts.
Villa Inkognito
Sommerrogata 1
Oslo, 0255
Norway