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Cotton House Hotel, Autograph Collection

Hotel

From $400 Rates shown are approximate and for guidance only, based on recent starting prices.

Minimum stay
1
Location
Barcelona, Spain
Type
Hotel

Amenities

  • AC
  • Gym
  • Pool
  • Restaurant
  • Rooftop
  • Wi-Fi

Experiences

  • Cultural Experiences

Why we love

  • Suspended spiral staircase
  • Shirts tailored in-house
  • Adaptive reuse

“The old headquarters of Barcelona’s cotton guild, with a staircase that hangs from the ceiling”.

Cotton House occupies an 1879 mansion on Gran Via, in Barcelona’s Eixample, built for a textile family and later home to the city’s Cotton Producers Guild. Designer Lázaro Rosa-Violán restored its marble staircase, ceiling frescoes and the guild’s library, now a reading room, and the 1957 spiral staircase that hangs from the ceiling still leads guests upstairs. The 83 rooms, five of them suites, pair tall windows and dark wood floors with crisp cotton linens, and books and ledgers rescued from the guild line one of the restaurant’s dining rooms. There is a rooftop pool and terrace, a cocktail bar, and an in-house atelier where Santa Eulalia tailors cotton shirts to measure.

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