Royal Windsor Grand Place

The Fashion rooms offer a fundamentally different world of experience to travellers seeking novelty sensation and exclusivity. The Spirit of /Tailor-Made/ Accommodation The Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place in Brussels has opted for extreme personalisation by entrusting the decoration of a selection of their guest rooms to Belgian famed Fashion Designers. Six other Fashion Rooms have just opened to create unforgettable nights at the Royal Windsor Hotel Grand Place. The Belgian stylists Mademoiselle Lucien Jean-Paul Knott Gerald Watelet and Marina Yee have designed the first four Fashion rooms. The two latest Fashion Rooms designed by Christian Wijnants and Xavier Delcour were launched in 2007. They feature artistry by six Belgian fashion designers representing widely different styles Haider Ackermann Pascale Kervan Nina Meert Romy Smits Kaat Tilley and Nicolas Woit.
-Jean-Paul Knott has created a very minimalist room with straight lines a retro projector and a HIFI system with his selection of CD?s and DVD?s and bamboos outside the window.
All Fashion Designers express a very different vision of fashion and share a preference for an art of living that is in harmony with the art of dressing. Main colours and textures matt gray floor white walls a dark brown Delvaux leather bedspread ?
-Romy Smits has created a colourful room that she calls /the Rebirth Suite/ a space for inspiration where you can relax body and soul experience feelings of love passion and happiness. The emphasis is on bareness but without being cold. Main colours and textures green red black pink and silver
-Gerald Watelet has created a traditional yet modern ambience which is cosy without being heavy. Each part of the room has a different colour to feel a different feeling. Main colours and textures light green on the walls beige linen for the sofa and the bedspread a dark brown carpet ?
-Pascale Kervan sets a tone of modernised refinement with a thick black carpet in black and off-white velvet brushed aluminium Plexiglass and opaline colours. The marriage of styles and the inclusion of personal items naturally give life to the room.
-Mademoiselle Lucien has created a room that is a dedication to a voyage between Orientalism and Art Deco inspired by the dancer and choreograph Akarova. Some geometry made-to-measure contrasts that create harmony and hand-made additions a touch of modernity that revitalises classicism. Main colours and textures light gray on the walls orange in the velvet of the bedspread and Moroccan sofa Alcantara recovering the desk.
-Haider Ackermann has created a room highlighting the eclecticism of genres between modernity ethnicity and antiquity ? On the walls an ancient wall covering painted in gray and black a black Indian bed cover Moroccan tables?
-Kaat Tilley Fashion Room offers a dream atmosphere and opens the doors to the world of imagination.
-Marina Yee invites you to discover her universe by mixing open spaces organic forms innovative materials and bright colors. Swathed solely and uniquely in the colour of the dawn this room proves to be a restful place with calm and purity. Main colours and textures 11 different whites bright red purple yellow
-Nina Meert Fashion Room offers you freshness and serenity. She designed a room where space and light play together and complement each other. There is a dressing for you to take the time to choose your clothes and to dress up. The walls are entirely covered with frescos /Pompeii/ painted by an Italian artist with sand from rivers the floor is ceruse wood and Roman stone. The lounge is composed of an impressive sofa and pouf covered by a fuchsia velvet. Main colours and textures pastel warm colours wood linen natural silk?
-Nicolas Woit has put his signature to a very glamorous luxurious Fashion Room.
-Xavier Delcour's Fashion Room is black. The bed is covered with a high couture patchwork quilt in saffron orange green bright pink tones and the bedroom offers a stellar sky. Like a night when everything is possible. And white. It sparkles. The room is striking but it doesn't dazzle. Xavier Delcour?s Fashion Room resembles him intimately. Promises of the celebration to come and the immediate pleasure proclaimed by its creator. Well defined areas harmoniously orchestrated into a total space that is in essence quite restrained. You enter and it's like visiting an apartment.
-Christian Wijnants A mirrored floor-to-ceiling partition gives the room rhythm separates it while at the same time making it appear larger. Xavier Delcour?s Fashion Room is a /jewel casket/. There are niches and alcoves for practical items and detail. Almost no furniture since there are discreet utility walls. Another special feature is the Tivoli radio in the bedroom and bathroom a beautiful object that is heard but not seen ? /In conventional hotel rooms you have no choice but to turn on the television to have sound/ says Christian. The wardrobe safe and bar are revealed by lightly touching the wall partitions with the fingers.