Sommerro, a new luxury hotel from Nordic Hotels & Resorts, is set to debut in September 2022. The property is housed in the former headquarters of Oslo Lysverker, the city’s original electrical company, and has been transformed into a 231-room Art Deco hotel, complete with 56 branded residences. There will also be four restaurants and three bars, a 200-seat gilded theater, a gym and wellness space, meeting and event spaces that can accommodate up to 150 people, and the city’s first year-round rooftop pool, sauna and terrace.
Notable Art Deco details include oak parquet flooring, bespoke furnishings upholstered with 1930s Norwegian motifs and bathrooms with custom tiles. Artwork by Norwegian artist Per Krohg is featured throughout the hotel, including a giant wall fresco and a ceiling mural that nods to the building’s heritage highlighting life after the wonders of electricity.
The highlight of Sommerro’s social spaces is its year-round rooftop terrace, which is home to the contemporary Tak Oslo restaurant. The rooftop terrace’s pool deck will be an exclusive retreat for hotel guests, where light bites will be served in the summer. During the colder months, guests can enjoy in-sauna treatments. The hotel will also offer Lysverker Scene, a 200-seat gilded theater that will host intimate events open to the public. Vestkantbadet, one of the few public baths left in all of Norway, has been restored and expanded into an 8,000-square-foot underground wellness space. Open to hotel guests and the public, it will include a series of treatment rooms, restored Roman baths, a gym with an infrared sauna, and cold plunge pool offering a traditional Nordic thermotherapy experience, all with eco-friendly spa products.
Sommerro Hotel (Photo by Lars Petter Pettersen)
Sommerro's four restaurants will include an outpost from Barramon, a Spanish tapas and wine bar, and Plah restaurant, which serves cuisine by Norway’s Thai Chef Terje Ommundsen. The all-day dining spot, Ekspedisjonshallen, is located in the former hall where the public once paid their electricity bills. It will have regular DJ performances accompanied with brasserie-style cuisine, while the hotel’s central sunken floor will be converted into a lively bar overlooked by the Per Krohg wall mural. Adjacent to Ekspedisjonshallen will be To Søstre, a home for mimosa-fueled afternoon teas served on cake trolleys and accompanied by regular classical concerts. Tak Oslo, a Nordic-Japanese restaurant by Swedish chef Frida Ronge is located on the seventh floor, where guests can experience hyper-local, seasonal dishes using sustainable Norwegian produce and seafood. All menus at the hotel include a mix of organic, healthy and local treats.
As the newest independent venture by Nordic Hotels & Resorts, Sommerro will uphold and enhance the group’s commitment to eco-sustainability through a range of on-site practices and amenities, from what dishes are served at each restaurant to the materials used to design and construct the guestrooms and property as a whole. A year-round destination with views over the Norwegian capital, visitors of Sommerro can explore the local neighborhood of Frogner, home to a plethora of museums, antique stores, art galleries, niche boutiques and restaurants. On the hotel’s doorstep is the iconic Frogner Park, Oslo’s biggest inner city green space, and the Vigeland Sculpture Park, home to more than 200 sculptures by Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland.
For more information, visit www.nordichotels.com.
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