Photo: Apollo Palm
 

Apollo Palm is proud to officially open its doors as an entirely new hotel experience steeped in Athens' distinct creative spirit. Offering a balanced juxtaposition of luxury, comfort and glamor, Apollo Palm is an inspired destination for local creatives and travelers from around the world. The hotel's authentic Mediterranean atmosphere and design ethos, nodding to the nearby Aegean and Mediterranean Seas, brings forth a new era of hospitality for the rapidly evolving Psyrri neighborhood of Athens.

Neighboring the Agora of Athens, the once beating heart of ancient Athenian ideals, civilization, beauty and history, Psyrri now plays host to an exciting café scene, open-air galleries, and globally-inspired bars and restaurants. This confluence of old and new perfectly sets the stage for the newcomer hotel, an ideal homebase from which to explore the surrounding hub of global contemp9orary art and culture.

Apollo Palm is an effortless exhibit of contemporary, thought-provoking interiors from one of Europe's most promising new design ateliers: Mariette Sans-Rival Studio, a Parisian design firm helmed by Mariette Sans-Rival. The studio thoughtfully reimagines two 20th-century buildings into 48 serene guest rooms alongside several light-filled common spaces. 

The hotel's architecture nods to Greece's iconic seafaring culture in the nearby Aegean and Mediterranean Seas, with sumptuous nautical curves defining its shape and a soft, natural color palette throughout the interior spaces. Mariette Sans-Rival Studio utilizes brass light fixtures to create a candle-like intimate ambiance, and clads the walls and floors in a broad palette of cream and white, brightening the stairs and emphasizing the verticality of the buildings. The studio also flawlessly restored and conserved the jaw-dropping Bauhaus-style stained-glass window spanning multiple floors. 

The hotel furniture is custom designed in collaboration with local craftspersons to create an entirely unique identity for Apollo Palm: soft lines mimic the construction and run contours around diaphanous golden fabrics and textures. The acclaimed Galerie Downtown Paris recently showcased one of the hotel's chairs from the "Lucie Collection'' in a buzzy, contemporary design exhibition titled Trônes, the first exhibition presented as part of the downtown+ project by curatorial duo Luna Laffanour and Romain Bitton.