Ave Bradley, global senior vice president of design and creative director at Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, likes to spend a lot of time in the city where she's developing a property before she puts together a design brief. "If you just hang out and absorb, a material and color palette starts to emerge," she says. For the Kimpton De Witt, the brand's first European property, Bradley was inspired by the Dutch people's appreciation for nature, which she found in Amsterdam's secret courtyards behind townhouses, and in the markets with fresh-cut flowers, among the city's other quiet highlights. She wanted to create a "really clean, refined, and precise architectural envelope that bridged the gap between modernity and Dutch history," she says. The challenge was applying her vision to the 274-room and 15-suite property, which comprises three historic Dutch townhouses from the 16th century and two Brutalist buildings from the 1980s that formerly housed a Crowne Plaza Hotel.
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机译：金普顿酒店及餐厅设计部全球高级副总裁兼创意总监Ave Bradley希望在她准备一份设计简介之前，花很多时间在她正在开发物业的城市里。她说：“如果你只是闲逛并吸收，就会出现一种材料和调色板。”对于品牌的第一个欧洲物业Kimpton De Witt来说，布拉德利的灵感来自荷兰人对自然的欣赏，她在阿姆斯特丹排屋后面的秘密庭院中以及在鲜花盛开的市场中发现了这座城市的其他静highlight亮点。她想创建一个“真正干净，精致和精确的建筑围护结构，以弥合现代性与荷兰历史之间的鸿沟”。面临的挑战是将她的愿景应用于拥有274个房间和15个套房的酒店，其中包括三栋16世纪的历史悠久的荷兰联排别墅和两栋1980年代的野兽派建筑，这些建筑以前曾是Crowne Plaza Hotel的所在地。
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