FOUR SEASONS
THE BUILDING BY LEMAY AND SID LEE
ARCHITECTURE - THE ELEGANCE OF A
GOLD CHAIN ON A CLASSIC BLACK DRESS
Designed by Lemay and Sid Lee Architecture,
the Four Seasons Hotel Montreal building
combines classic elegance and contemporary
style. The eighteen-storey multifunctional
building includes a 169-room hotel and 18
private residences. It makes an iconic statement
with its streamlined, uniquely offset volumes and
richly textured accents that embody luxury and
refinement.
Boldly swathed in black, the tower captures
light differently on each floor and interacts with
Montreal’s ever-changing skyline and seasons.
The façade’s main volumes are divided according
to its functions by a golden bas-relief that folds
inwards and spreads vertically, creating a thin
blade in the centre of the building that alters its
visual aspect. The dark colour of the glass lays a
delicate veil over the interior spaces and creates
a subdued appearance at nightfall, framed by
granite side façades that reflect the rhythm of
the glass panels as their textures come to life
with the changing ambient light.
THE DESIGN – SENSUAL INTERIOR DESIGN
BY PARIS-BASED GILLES & BOISSIER IN
COLLABORATION WITH PHILIP HAZAN
The hotel’s chic interiors by designers Gilles &
Boissier in collaboration with Philip Hazan are
a stark contrast to the building’s black glass
façade.
Guests enter through a lobby of white marble,
with gold elevators and can discover pink and
grey velvet walls that demand to be touched
when they access the feminine third floor
reception. Graceful and sensual, the 169 guest
rooms are imbued with modern classicism,
bathed in comforting colours of cloud white,
with ethereal backlighting, smooth velvet
textures, mirrored surfaces, swathes of marble
and bronze, and gold and dark wood accents.
The feeling of sophisticated, modern luxury
is completed by glamourous rose velvet
furniture, a circular bar étagère for make-your-
own cocktails, minimalist four-poster beds,
and corpulent backlit mirrors that reflect the
spectacular city views that sip in through floor-
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to-ceiling windows. The west-facing side of the
building offers best views in the city to admire
the iconic Leonard Cohen mural.
ATELIER ZÉBULON PERRON
MARCUS RESTAURANT + TERRACE |
MARCUS
LOUNGE + BAR
For Four Seasons Hotel Montreal, celebrated
Montreal design frim, Atelier Zébulon Perron
helped develop a new concept: The Social
Square. This sprawling third-floor Social Square
encompasses both the hotel’s lobby as well as
MARCUS Restaurant + Terrace and MARCUS
Lounge + Bar, by celebrity chef Marcus
Samuelsson.