Ovolo Nishi is a collaboration between designers, artists, artisans and fantasists. People love hotels, not for their swank but for reminding of transience and the importance of romance. As well as being a physical place, it is also a vessel for on-going cultural and artistic creation.
Team makes projects and programs in order to explore interests, support creative endeavour and have conversations with others about things that are important to us.
Ovolo Nishi features a 24-hour fitness center and complimentary bicycles. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This luxury hotel also offers a library, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. Onsite parking is available.
Hotel has 68 rooms. Each one is unique and reflects team's love for the well made, the curious and the comfortable. Half of the rooms look out of their opening hardwood windows onto the road and the lake or bush beyond and half look into the internal atrium populated with tree ferns salvaged from Tasmanian forests destined for clearance.
The beds are made from reclaimed oak, the walls are a mix of concrete, cork, earthen clay, and natural fibre wallpapers.
Team’ve reimagined the textures and layers of an Australian shack and landscape. The furniture collection is an active catalogue of collected and reclaimed 20th century furniture principally from Australia.
Finishing touches include Aesop amenities and heated bathroom floors.
Low lit and moody. These are hotel's biggest rooms. They sprawl around corners and down corridors. They look into the internal atrium planted with salvaged Tasmanian tree ferns. They have a king size bed, a little desk, a separate sitting space, double vanity and twin overhead rain showers. And a big, deep, concrete bath tub.
The time it takes to fill the bath is about the same as it takes to drink two glasses of wine. Team recommends calling down for room service and making a night of it.
They reimagine the textures and layers of an Australian shack and landscape. The furniture is an active catalogue of collected and reclaimed 20th century furniture principally from Australia. Each one is dressed with original artworks.
Finishing touches include Aesop. All in all, it’s a big and comfortable, low-lit cocoon tucked in amongst the tree ferns.
Hotel's medium, low-lit room with a view of the internal atrium and the Tasmanian tree fernsplanted there. These guys have a king size bed and a desk made from reclaimed oak found in Sydney and originally from the Loire valley.
And they have a seperate sitting space. This is a hidey hole with room to move.
Hotel's medium rooms that looks out to the road, the sun, and the lake or bush beyond. They have a king size bed, a little desk to work from and a separate sitting area. Like all hotel's rooms, they are a re-imagination of the textures and layers of an Australian shack and landscape expressed through raw materials.
Clay rendered walls that purify the air, concrete, natural fibre wallpaper, cork and eucalyptus strand-board. These are for those people who want a little more room and crave the sun.
The salvaged Tasmanian tree ferns make for the perfect outlook from the Original Atrium rooms – all you need to do is enjoy the view! Each low-lit room features a king size bed, single vanity and overhead rain shower. Mother nature makes her mark on the
walls – from clay rendering to cork, and wallpaper composed entirely of natural fibres, each room is unique. You’ll also find original artworks, carefully restored vintage furniture and a little extra room to move so you can truly make yourself at home.
The Original Sun room faces out to the road and to the lake or the bush beyond. These are standard sized rooms; and where the sunbeams will find you. They have a king size bed and a bit more space to stretch out in. Each one is different with its own reupholstered and restored original twentieth century furniture and original artworks.
Sometimes the walls are clay rendered, sometimes they are concrete or natural fibre, and sometimes they are cork. They reimagine the textures and layers of an Australian shack and landscape.
A room with a different kind of view? Look no further than this intimate space that overlooks the internal atrium jungle of luscious tree ferns. Cosy Atrium features a queen size bed, single vanity and overhead rain shower. Inside out, or outside in?
Nature comes to you thanks to the experimental wall features composed of concrete, cork, earthen clay and eucalyptus timber. Cosy and compact, with moody vibes this is the perfect base to begin exploring the sights of the city.
A.Baker serves breakfast and lunch as well as in-between grazing. They do European bistro style food that you can easily share, or not. The menu changes seasonally and ingredients are sourced locally.
This is where you can go for a glass of wine, cheese and some salumi. You can also buy bread, sandwiches, pastries and wine to go.
Močan and Green Grout is across the road and down the lane from Hotel Hotel. Spending time here is like spending time at your friend’s house. Your friend who has really good taste when it comes to interiors and is also a very good cook. From their open kitchen they serve up shared plates made from locally sourced produce.
It’s at once a café and restaurant and wears both hats thoughtfully and with grace. Good to note is that Močan and Green Grout is BYO (you can pick something up on your way at A.Baker or TwentyOne Groceries).
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Dinnerfrom 18.00h
Monster kitchen and bar wanders through hotel's ground floor preoccupied with local and seasonal produce prepared for sharing. The kitchen and bar team guides her through her multiple personalities as she shift from lucidity to debauchery between 06.30h to 01.00h every day.
She is open to everyone for all occasions at all times with a menu that changes with the seasons.
She spreads across four separate spaces. The lounge is a series of nested spaces made of woven rough formed concrete structural lintels. The Mosaic room houses giant original artworks.
The Salon and Dining rooms tell a story of Australian immigration.
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The Mosaic Room is a private dining space connected to the Monster kitchen and bar on the ground floor. It has a triple height ceiling flooded with natural light and an outdoor terrace with double hung sash windows. It gets its name from its mosaic installation of tiles made by the late Gerard Havekes.
The room is also home to other giants – cave paintings by Al Stark, a sculpture by North American artist Steven Seigel, a large work on paper by Japanese artist Fumio Tachibana and a large multi media work, ‘Man of Wounds’ by Dutch artist Rik Meijers.
Hotel's little gym is by the south lift past the grand stair. It has a view, cardio, free-weight and machine-based equipment. You can go any time; your key pass will let you in.
This hair salon is on the ground floor behind the reception desk. It has been beautifully designed by Craig Tan architects.
Odona does yoga every day except Friday and Sunday. It's in the Shed on the hotel level of the Nishi building and she kindly lets Hotel Hotel guests join in for free.
On Black Mountain's lower slopes, these large gardens showcase Australian floral diversity over 35 hectares of cultivated garden and 50 hectares of remnant bushland.
Local makers Goodspeed, make hotel's bikes. Come and see at concierge to arrange a ride.
The Kendall Lane Theatre is an impeccable theatrette that sits 35 people. It is fully equipped with state-of-the-art projection and surround sound technology.
Hotel's library is on the ground floor next to the reception desk. It is stocked with titles from Perimeter Books, a Melbourne outfit dedicated to small press, art, architecture and design books.
The nation's extraordinary art collection is showcased in a suitably huge purpose-built gallery within the parliamentary precinct.
Occupying a flash new purpose-built building, this wonderful gallery tells the story of Australia through its faces – from wax cameos of Indigenous Australians to colonial portraits of the nation's founding families, to Howard Arkley's DayGlo portrait of musician Nick Cave.
Visually, the Nishi Gallery is a quiet space. It has garden views and the boundaries from inside to outside are blurred by the ceiling to floor windows along each side.
The Palace Electric Cinema is below hotel, down the grand stair. It has eight theatres and hosts international film festivals, art-house, documentary, independent and quality new release films.
OVOLO NISHI
NewActon Nishi, 25 Edinburgh AveCanberra ACT 2601Australia