There are thirty-one rooms and no lobby. Guests are met at the door, walked to the room, and that is the whole of the arrival — a decision that the hotel’s designer describes as removing the part of a stay where you are made to feel like a transaction.
It works better than it sounds. What it removes along with the desk is the accumulation of small waits that make the first hour of most stays faintly stressful.
The rooms are dark, low, and heavily textured, and this is where opinion splits. Roughly half of the guests describe them as the most restful rooms they have slept in. The other half want a window that opens more than four inches.
