World > Europe > Finland

Quality Hotel Ateljee

COST: $

AS FEATURED IN...

From Travel + Leisure , MAY 2003

On the advice of a history student I meet at the Pharmacy, an artist's hangout on the Communist bloc-style main square, I ask Lena Salminen, the manager of the Quality Hotel Ateljee, for a tour of her once-grand building, designed by Aalto in 1928. At the top of a spiral staircase with a stitched-leather banister, she unlocks three restored guest rooms; inside are woven-fabric chairs and block-print curtains, telltale signs of Aalto. 'You have to go to Jyväskylä, where Aalto...MORE>>

– Heidi Sherman Mitchell Finnish Lines

Last updated May 2003