Rafayel on the Left bank a new concept of hospitality

The new trendy design hotel, Rafayel on the Left Bank, apart from being one of the first eco-friendly hotel in the world, it is an art orientated hotel with an entire area dedicated exclusively to Art Exhibitions, with artists such as Italian artist Max Viccardi, and other young and talented painters and sculptors from all over the world that will find Hotel Rafayel a great place where to express their pieces of art.

The hotel will also host a display window for the famous jewellery designer Andrea Ghelli. He will be displaying his latest creations.

Moreover there will be a bakery, run by young and talented New York face, Michelle Husserl.

 

Hotel Rafayel intends to promote art in all its forms and aspects.
Hotel Rafayel stives to create and  established an “intellectual renaissance in Battersea”.
Mr.  Stephen Bayley, famous design critic and writer who was formerly Chief Executive of the Design Museum. wrote that: “Any hotel in this still neglected part of London is a prospect of wonder, but an ecologically intelligent hotel with aspirations to glamour is, to put it no higher, exceptionally noteworthy…. The story of the hotel Rafayel offers real-world insights into the business of architecture today….Iqbal Latif bought the top floors in this 145-room [Falcon Wharf] development and, sensing an interesting opportunity, acquired the freehold. Latif boldly reinstated the idea of a hotel and established the ambitious rhetoric of an “intellectual renaissance in Battersea”….Battersea cannot yet be confused with St Germain. But, for once, a developer is determined to do something interesting. At a time when other developers are pondering ugly, non-viable holes in the ground, this is inspirational.”

Opening soon in Battersea. A new chic area just around the corner from famous Chelsea. Hotel Rafayel offers a great selection of  fine food, and beverage. As Food is an Art for Hotel Rafayel, we  will find some beautiful and tasty fusion plates, in the high-class, impeccable service and astonishing restaurant bar with an astonished view of the Thames.  

AF

London

Hotel Rafayel. The future is Now…

HOTEL RAFAYEL is a bet, a new concept of living London. A new prospective of accomodation in the newest vibrant area of London: BATTERSEA .

Classy and modern at the same time as well as luxury and comfort Hotel Rafayel offers a new way of living London.

A concept of ECOGREENHOTEL in London. Showcasing the latest technological advances in LED lightings, air-conditioning and VDA efficiencies, Hotel Rafayel aims to minimise environmental impact by reducing each guest’s carbon footprint.

According to the hotel, the average London guest notches up a colossal carbon footprint of 70kg per night; which at Rafayel will be reduced to 17kg. Rafayel’s interior design is sleek and modern, yet retains a warm charm through its bespoke furnishings.

The hotel has 65 guestrooms; 15 apartments, two restaurants with indoor and outdoor dining, bar, lounge, spa with gym and pool, meeting room, conference hall to accommodate 150, coffee shop, brasserie and a florist.

The hotel’s curved blocks afford 360° views of London from the roof terrace. Many rooms enjoy expansive views over the river and city skyline, through their floor-to-ceiling windows.

The bedrooms are available in four categories – Big (Mississippi), Bigger (Yangtze), Even Bigger (Amazon) and Biggest (Nile).

The restaurant will offer an International Cusine for the international visitors of London. The waterfront 120-cover restaurant, Banyan Riverside, with its crystal bar overlooking the river, will offer distinctive Indo-Japanese cusine fused with Chinese and Indian spices and simple Italian ingredients, all presented in a refined French style. Rafayel’s restaurants will offer both formal and casual dining, breakfast, morning brunches, and traditional afternoon tea.

The Rafayel Wa Michi Wellbeing Spa has been created in conjunction with Content (who are also supplying bathroom amenities) alongside Wellworld Spas.

The hotel’s developer Mr Ike Latif aims high at low emissions, but believes -‘‘there is no need to return to Stone Age living. Being “green” should be our overall goal, but without compromising on the luxury that the modern age offers us’’.

Says Ike Latif: “The concept of the hotel on the Capital’s new Left Bank in the culturally prosperous environ of a bustling Battersea is a key step forward in formalising the intellectual renaissance of Battersea, not unlike the discovery and patronage of the Seine’s Rive Gauche by intellectual greats like Sartre, de Beauvoir, Zola, Camus or Hemingway and Fitzgerald” we can call it an ”intellectual renaissance in Battersea”.

The hotel is due to open in December 2009.

Rafayel on the Left Bank, Falcon Wharf building, 34 Lombard Road, Battersea, SW11 3RF.

Web: www.hotelrafayel.com ;

Blog:  http://www.rafayelshotel.blogspot.com

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AF

London

Elisa Sergi: Polemic revolving around the june election in Florence

It is an acknowledge fact that in Italy the right wing (PDL) elects notorious show business people in politics and now even a football player , but the surprising and rather shocking news is that the left wing (PD) is said guilty of doing the same. Today’s news in the  italian newspapers revolves around Elisa Sergi.

ELISA SERGI is a young Fiorentine girl. At the age of eighteen, she worked on TV as a show girl. I happen to know her very well, we could say that we are good friends, therefore my point of view can be misunderstood as biased but it is not, I am trying just to report the truth and to be fair.

I really think that people who have been working in politics in Florence so far, are middle age with rather conservative point of view, and I think young people, could be exactly what we (voter) are looking for at the present time.

Why her ? Why not !

Elisa is young, she has a degree in psicology and is currently taking her masters , she has been working like a journalist for a long time. She has always been interested in politics, in her family everyone has a high education and she grew up in a proper environment. We used to hang out together and also talk about italian politics as I studied political science and this has always been my interest. Elisa always had a clear idea in what she wants for Florence and now it looks like she has the opportunity to show that a young girl with a good education can make it happen.

I wouldn’t want that the polemic around her is just used as a way to fight between the two parties and I wouldn’t want  her career as a politician  to be destroyed just because at the age of eighteen,  as hundred of girls wanted to be famous. However working like a show girl and having all this picture almost naked do not help her to make people take her seriously but I do not think we should put everyone at the same level. She was a show girl when she was eighteen but now she is a psychologist and works like a journalist, therefore she has the right to be respected for what she is doing now, and if this gives her publicity, we cannot but hope that people wont stop at the title but will read the whole article, as see that she is a smart, young, professional.

As she is starting from a low position in politics, she will have time to improve and to show if she is worth to be in politics and not like in other cases when people without experience and not even a degree, had an important position and we (voters)  had no the time  and way to reply to such an imposition.

Elisa Sergi and me in one of our nights out together in Florence

www.elisasergi.it

Corriere fiorentino

Antonietta Fishta

London