Since the owner and oper­a­tor Olaf Baumeis­ter took over the tra­di­tional house from his par­ents in 1992, he has been con­tin­u­ally renew­ing and extend­ing the build­ings and inte­ri­ors ever since. In 2014, for instance, he added the ‘Lofthaus’, whose infin­ity pool shares the view on the forests, the lake and the sky. Lately, more rooms have been com­pletely ren­o­vated and refur­bished for which Berlin’s Stu­dio Aisslinger was com­mis­sioned. In its over­all con­cept for the hotel fit­tings and shower solu­tions from Dorn­bracht and new wash­bowls from Kaldewei were key ele­ments.

The char­ac­ter­is­ti­cally clear and ambi­tious lay­out of the Hotel See­garten con­veys a sense of clar­ity and spa­cious­ness and pro­duces liv­ing areas fit­ted with high-qual­ity fur­ni­ture and bath­room inte­ri­ors. Most of the mate­ri­als that were used, such as wood and stone, are untreated. The mate­ri­als and the choice of prod­ucts express a clear acknowl­edge­ment of the qual­ity to be found in the region: The style of light­ing, the fur­ni­ture and the home acces­sories all orig­i­nate exclu­sively from the Sauer­land.

Thus, fit­tings and shower solu­tions from the Meta series and the Aquamoon well­ness shower from Dornbracht were installed, as well as 14 Cen­tro Duo bath­tubs from the man­u­fac­turer Kaldewei – both com­pa­nies whose respec­tive head­quar­ters are located in the same region as the hotel. “The spe­cial thing about the Hotel See­garten is that tra­di­tion­ally we select the entire inte­rior from the region and sus­tain­ably: from clay plas­ter on the walls, to small items like switches and cables, to bath­room objects made of steel enamel. This is not only extremely well received by our sup­pli­ers, but of course also by our guests, who love the sto­ries behind the prod­ucts,” explains hote­lier Olaf Baumeis­ter proudly.

In the open and func­tional inte­rior design con­cept of the new designer rooms only one small wall and inclined, light wooden slats sep­a­rate the bath­room area from the rest of the room. There, the floor, parts of the wall and the bath sur­round were cov­ered in dis­tinc­tive ter­razzo nat­ural stone, which is also used for the wash­stand. On it, in 49 of the guest bath­rooms a real design nov­elty is placed: the Nueva wash­basins from Kaldewei, designed by Werner Aisslinger. The Hotel See­garten is the first hotel in the world to use these new wash­bowls before the offi­cial start of sales. Made of recy­clable steel enamel the Nueva wash­basins are meant to be suit­able for lux­u­ri­ous hotel bath­rooms and well­ness areas as well as for exclu­sive pri­vate spas and pub­lic areas. The model is avail­able in all com­mon san­i­tary colours as well as in the shades of the Coor­di­nated Colours Col­lec­tion from Kaldewei.

Behind the white wash­basin two fit­tings from the Meta series from Dorn­bracht – free-stand­ing sin­gle-lever mix­ers in Black matt – are mounted. A con­cept of max­i­mum reduc­tion, with a tech­noid, almost sculp­tural appear­ance makes a con­fi­dently styl­ish state­ment here. Another Meta is fit­ted right next to the bath – this time a sin­gle-lever wall-mounted mixer. Here too, the mono­chrome ele­gance of the Black matt fit­ting con­trasts sub­tly with the warm greys of the nat­ural stone, sta­bil­is­ing its strik­ing pat­tern and the pol­ished sur­faces. “I have a pas­sion for superb design, high-qual­ity mate­ri­als and excep­tional sur­face fin­ishes. We have found in Dorn­bracht a part­ner who more than meets these require­ments. I was even more con­vinced by know­ing that the fit­tings come from Iser­lohn,” Olaf Baumeis­ter adds about his pref­er­ence for work­ing with pre­mium man­u­fac­tur­ers from the region.