The Poli House, a 40-room Tel Aviv hotel in a landmark Bauhaus building, has reopened with a reimagined, futuristic interior by industrial designer Karim Rashid.
The hotel was restored over three years by architect Nitza Szmuk.
Rashid’s design employs yellow, blue, green and white interiors in an homage to 1930s Tel Aviv with tech-savvy design elements. “My design for Poli House has a great duality about it,” Rashid said. “The hotel is a marriage of Bauhaus and digital age, form and function, crafts and fine arts, digital and organic. The simplicity of the architecture is juxtaposed with digitally driven ornamentation and form. I imagined the Bauhaus in the 21st century, having a universal language that crosses borders and connects all of us. Tel Aviv is that kind of city, with every culture integrated. This pristine White City building is juxtaposed with a digi-pop aura, the day in which we live.”
The hotel’s bar has a 600-square-meter, panoramic, rooftop space with city views and an infinity pool, cocktail bar, bottle service and poolside tapas. In addition to a spa, the hotel has rooftop event space and Loveat, an organic café. The Poli House Portal, on the ground floor, is a cultural center featuring a gallery space, an art magazine and design book store and evolving fashion displays that will showcase works by homegrown Tel Aviv creatives available for purchase.
The elevators boasting mood lighting schemes and LED screens featuring the daily weather, local activities and images of Tel Aviv.
Built in 1934, The Poli House was formerly known as The Polishuk House, a Bauhaus architecture-style edifice designed by Shlomo Liaskowski. After its completion the housed commercial office spaces along with 15 shops, 50 offices and a clandestine printing press.
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