The Thief (hotel)

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The Thief
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The Thief (hotel)
General information
LocationLandgangen 1 Tjuvholmen
Oslo
Coordinates 59°54′27″N10°43′16″E / 59.9076°N 10.7210°E / 59.9076; 10.7210
Opening2013
Owner Petter Stordalen
ManagementNordic Hotels & Resorts
Technical details
Floor count8
Design and construction
Architect(s)Mellbye Architects
Other information
Number of rooms119
Number of restaurantsFru K (www.fru-k.no)
Website
www.thethief.com

The Thief is a luxury waterfront hotel [1] located on Landgangen 1 on the islet of Tjuvholmen (Thief Islet) in Oslo, Norway, designed by the award-winning Mellbye Architects. [2] The hotel opened on January 9, 2013, and is currently the only hotel [3] designated as a Design Hotel in Norway. The Thief has 119 rooms and is a part of the Nordic Hotels & Resort chain owned by Forbes-billionaire Petter Stordalen. [4] It is situated right next to the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, and thanks to a collaboration between the two, there is a large collection of contemporary art in the hotel. According to press reports, the hotel owned by Tjuvholmen KS had a price tag of 720 million NOK, [5] giving each of the 119 rooms an average cost price of more than one million dollars.

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History

The Thief is situated on Tjuvholmen, an islet that according to local historians was overrun by robbers and whores in the 18th century. Today, Tjuvholmen is one of Norway's most innovative urban renewal projects.

Collaborations

The former director of Norway's National Museum, Swedish curator Sune Nordgren [6] has hand picked paintings, prints, sculptures, and installations for the rooms and public areas, while interior designer Anemone Wille Våge [7] decorated the rooms and Scandinavian designer Maggie Wonka [8] designed the bathrobes. The international music collective Apparatjik has hand picked music on vinyl as part of in-room entertainment. The group has also created the music used for the hotel's wake-up call and the turndown service. In the Apparatjik suite [9] guests can project the members of the group onto their bed creating an illusion of being in bed with the band.

Restaurant

The hotel restaurant Fru K focuses on local and organic food, and was headed by noted chef Kari Innerå, [10] who won The Culinary Olympics in Erfurt in 2008. In order to have Innerå sign up for the job, Petter Stordalen had to buy half of her other restaurant Cru. Innerå later ended the collaboration with Stordalen and started the restaurant BA53.

Critical reception

The Thief was named Norway's first six star hotel by the British newspaper The Independent. [11] Wallpaper wrote that "In spite of top-notch art and impeccable design, what really stole our hearts was the spirit of the people working here." [12] The hotel was on New York Times list [13] over 46 destinations to check out in 2013 and on Conde Nast's Hot List for 2013. [1] The hotel also made it into the Norway Hotel Guide. [14]

Celebrity guests

Since the opening, The Thief has hosted a wide range of celebrity guests, including Justin Bieber, [15] Thirty Seconds to Mars, [16] Ellie Goulding, Lana Del Rey, [17] Pink, [18] Bill Gates, [19] Helena Christensen, [18] Steven Van Zandt, [18] Green Day, [20] Rihanna, [21] MUSE, [21] Julio Iglesias, [21] Dave Navarro, [22] Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, [23] and Steven Tyler. [24] [25]

Art

Through a collaboration [26] with its neighbor, the Astrup Fearnley museum of contemporary art, the Thief display signal work from the museum's collection. Grazing the walls of the hotel you will find works form artists like Andy Warhol, HRH Queen Sonja of Norway, Charles Ray and Bryan Ferry. [27] The hotel's permanent art collection is curated by Sune Nordgren, the former director of Norway's National Museum of Art. Nordgren has handpicked original artwork for each of the 119 rooms, from artists such as Sir Peter Blake, Richard Prince, Magne Furuholmen, Camilla Löw and Kjell Nupen, as well as rising talent. As a world's first the interactive TVs in each room offer 'art on demand' with a choice of contemporary video art. The Independent wrote: "Warhol is the biggest name, but the public areas of this hotel carry the work of some of the most important names in contemporary art: Fiona Banner's pink-lettered, sub-pornographic text of Lawrence of Arabia - The Desert - for example; Tony Cragg's wryly brutish Subcommittee, a knobbly metal sculpture that weighs the best part of a ton; Niki de Saint Phalle's sinuous steel-and-polyester sculpture Le Grand Rossignol floats touchably in a plush sitting area - a snip at £560,000, if it were for sale." [28]

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References

  1. 1 2 The Thief Hot List 2013
  2. ↑ The Thief In Oslo
  3. ↑ Blir Norges Eneste I Design Hotels
  4. ↑ MBO Petter Stordalen
  5. ↑ Petter Stordalen åpner superhotell til 720 millioner i dag
  6. ↑ Ønsker Velkommen Til Luksus På The Thief
  7. ↑ "To Catch A Thief". Archived from the original on 2013-08-09. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  8. ↑ Justin Bieber At The Thief
  9. ↑ Apparatjik suite opened at The Thief
  10. ↑ Innerå styrer Fru K på The Thief
  11. ↑ Oslo has the combover
  12. ↑ Editor's Picks
  13. ↑ New York Times: Reis til Oslo i 2013
  14. ↑ Norway Hotel Guide
  15. ↑ Vi behandler rockestjerner som gjester, og gjester som rockestjerner
  16. ↑ Hollywood-stjerne lånte Stordalens luksusbåt
  17. ↑ Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez Reunite in Norway: Check Out The Thief Hotel Where He Stayed
  18. 1 2 3 Bodde på Stordalen-hotell i to måneder
  19. ↑ Stoltenberg: Vi har ennå ikke nådd våre mål
  20. ↑ Green Day har alkonekt på turneen
  21. 1 2 3 Slik stjeler Stordalen superstjernene til The Thief
  22. ↑ Derfor er Dave Navarro på Rihannas hotell
  23. ↑ Her er Olsen-tvillingene i Norge
  24. ↑ "Steven ville kjøpe traktoren: - Jeg er så sint på dere (video)". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2014-12-11.
  25. ↑ "Brækhus møtte rockelegende: - Han satte hjertene våre i brann - Aftenposten". www.aftenposten.no. Archived from the original on 2015-04-06.
  26. ↑ Redefines Hotel Art
  27. ↑ The Thief Oslo Strikes Again
  28. ↑ A night with Andy Warhol: Oslo hotel The Thief takes art very seriously indeed
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