The World of Hospitality Issue 37 2020 | Page 77

THE ALEXANDRA BARCELONA HOTEL Alexandra Barcelona has achieved to capture in its continuous renovations, the local taste of the city of Barcelona thanks to its meticulous interior design and its different gastronomic proposals. A cosmopolitan hotel committed to transmit the style of life of the people of the city. Its 116 rooms show off this original local taste and the perfect symbiosis of tradition and modernity. Many of them with the prized hydraulic floor tile and modernist coffered ceilings, live together with carefully selected auteur design pieces. The owners of the hotel have always wanted to support social causes. Thus, for this refurbishment they have collaborated with the company Philarthropic, art consultancy firm committed to social impact, creating the project Searching for new rooms, where art is used to evoke memories of the familiar collective memory, through Mediterranean images, that become imaginary windows to this sea inside the rooms. The pictures collection satisfies its aesthetic objectives and, in addition, becomes its social responsibility campaign collecting funds for a good cause. Because profits from the purchase of these works and its possible further sale to hotel guests, will be allocated to make art therapy sessions for homeless people, with a disease, who are or have been imprisoned, hosted by the Obra Social Santa Lluïsa de Marillac (Barcelona). All the pictures are from Verónica Escudero and can be acquired through the art platform www.koyac.net . WEBSITE: www.curiocollection3.hilton.com THE WORLD OF HOSPITALITY 77