Ku'Damm 101
A mix of business travelers and design-savvy hipsters appreciate the Ku’Damm’s sleek, clean-lined aesthetic. Set right on the Kurfürstendamm, West Berlin’s main shopping drag, the hotel has a futuristic lobby with curvy benches and floor-to-ceiling light fixtures; the space segues into a round bar and outdoor patio, where both guests and chic after-work types gather for drinks. Upstairs, the 170 guest rooms are starkly spare-looking, with boldly shaped furnishings (Arne Jacobsen chairs, movable striped-wood TV consoles, platform beds with spotlighted headboards) placed like gallery exhibits amid otherwise unadorned space. Allergy sufferers and the disabled are specially cared for here; most rooms are carpeted in natural rubber, and “barrier-free” options are available.
Room to Book: On Friday nights the hotel hosts DJ-spun lounge events; if you’re sensitive to noise, book a room facing the courtyard.
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From Food & Wine , APR 2004
Our hotel was the Ku'Damm 101 a rare outpost of hipsterism deep in West Berlin whose concrete columns and apparent ban on broadloom had throngs of club kids crawling through the bar. But a walk down the Kurfürstendamm (a.k.a. 'the Ku'damm'), a boulevard of brands all too familiar to an American traveler, made it clear that the real action must be in the East. We were about to write off the entire West, until we met Horst Reinwald, master oystermonger....MORE
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