Hotel Kyjev

"With an assiduous 'At your wish, madam!' the doorman swept me into a foyer that I initially couldn't see at all. But as my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, a wonderland of 1960s design gradually emerged around me: a travertine floor that rose up in a chic curve to become the travertine wall facing, bundles of spherical lamps... even the frames around the lift doors were rounded.
No question: I had just stepped into a time machine..."

Anneke Bockern