L’Ermitage Beverly Hills
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA
Reintroducing L’Ermitage as the premier independent hotel in Beverly Hills, our design celebrates its understated sense of luxury. We intended to bring European elegance to the property along with an intimate residential feel. Classically sophisticated materials like bronze and natural stone are used to light and spare effect, while our use of color emphasizes the California environment. In the spirit of Los Angeles, the art program has a certain freedom to it, expressive and fluid.
A sense of welcoming upon arrival.
The reception is designed for a welcoming sense of arrival. It communicates a light and spare elegance in the parchment and stone reception desk, limestone floors and Venetian plaster walls and ceilings. The space feels open, bright, and timeless, using decorative screens to connect to the adjoining rooms. A mixed media work by Heather Day, a contemporary artist based in Joshua Tree, California, anchors the room. A few steps up from the lobby is Alcova, an intimate living room where guests talk and take meetings among small seating groups. The design is elevated by a stepped ceiling and unexpected details within the space’s tone-on-tone decor.
Balancing California modernism with a European sensibility.
Silver leaf ceilings, decorative sconces and Hollywood banquettes.
The hotel’s restaurant space, Costa Covo, was inspired by the work of Cedric Gibbons, the great Hollywood art director who brought art deco to Southern California. Beginning in the 1920's, Gibbons worked as the eminent stylist of film and designed the iconic Oscars statuette. Silver leaf ceilings, fluted pilaster, decorative sconces and Hollywood banquettes, bespoke dining chairs and back painted glass top tables set the scene for fine dining with an adjacent outdoor breakfast terrace. We featured large scale works by Amir Zaki, a contemporary photographer interested in abstracting the California landscape, along with an energetic and expressive ceramic installation by Roger Herman.
