Le célèbre Condé Nast Traveler a dévoilé sa Hot List 2008. Pour la première fois un hôtel bordelais est sélectionné.

Cette Hot List est compilée d’après les choix des professionnels de Condé Nast. Plusieurs critères sont privilégiés : le design, l’ambiance, le service, entre autres.

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With an exterior entirely clad in panels of pearly Corian, this gleaming iceberg is the most radical hotel to have opened in France in 2007. While most of Bordeaux luxuriates in the 18th century, the Seeko’o is defiantly 21st. It is a family affair, run by Chantal de Knyff with her husband (who oversaw all the building work) and her son and daughter (who came up with the name – Inuit for iceberg). The attention to detail is obvious, from the glossy, black-lacquer ceilings, which magnify the bedrooms and create clever mirror effects, to the well-conceived lighting, Corian washstands and supremely comfortable, locally made beds. The white, black and chrome minimalism is tempered by warm wood, slate and fluffy chenille. On some of the floor-to-ceiling windows, screen-printed motifs taken from old photos recall the wine warehouses and dockyard cranes that once filled the area. There’s a hammam and sauna on the fourth floor and a spacious bar on the first, where Champagne, malt whiskies and a wide choice of cocktails are served. Like the inscription painted in the lobby and engraved over the baths – ‘talk, watch, stroll, rest, wrap up, dream, awaken, lounge around smile’ – Seekoo is willfully contemporary, but also fun.

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