Hilton Hotel Barcellona
On Avenida Diagonal, in Barcelona’s Les Corts district, the Hilton Hotel Barcellona sits right in the city’s business pulse. The location is direct and urban, so the interiors need to work hard without feeling busy. Inside, the lobby sets the tone. It’s the heart of the hotel and the first pause after the street, designed to welcome a wide mix of guests, schedules, and moods.
The space is defined by its height: a 15-meter volume that reads open and confident from the moment guests step in. But the scale isn’t the whole story. What matters is how the lobby is planned as a flexible, multifunctional setting, ready to shift with the cultural life of the city. One day it supports business meetings and arrivals. Another day it hosts art exhibitions or a more relaxed pace, without the room ever needing to “reset” itself.
A lobby designed to adapt
The design approach keeps options open. It’s not a lobby with one fixed purpose or a single, staged scene. Instead, it’s a space that can stretch or tighten depending on what’s happening. That kind of planning calls for furnishings that don’t dictate how people should use the room. They need to hold their own visually, but stay easy to move, regroup, and live with.
And in a setting like this, every piece has to look right from multiple angles. Guests are passing through, stopping for a moment, joining an event, or waiting between appointments. The furniture can’t just be decorative; it has to be practical in a quiet way.
Meridiani Kerr stools
For this central area, Meridiani’s Kerr stools were selected. It’s a choice that aligns with the lobby’s day-to-day reality: multi-use, high traffic, and always on display. The stools are versatile by nature, and that versatility matters here. They can support quick conversations, brief waiting moments, or more structured event layouts, without looking out of place.
The design is neat and pure, with clean shapes that feel at home in hospitality. But it’s not limited to that world. The same clarity that works in a hotel lobby also makes sense in residential interiors, across different rooms and uses. In Barcelona, within a lobby that has to do many jobs at once, Kerr fits in without fading away. It stays composed, adaptable, and easy to live with. Courtesy of Matteo Thun & Partners.
