A-nrd is completing the design of Arthouse Glasgow, a new 76-key lifestyle hotel set inside a 19th-century listed building on Bath Street in Glasgow city centre. Opening on June 24, 2026, the project marks a new chapter for Oberland, the British hotel group focused on adaptive reuse and heritage regeneration. For A-nrd, founded by Alessio Nardi and led with creative partner Lukas Persakovas, the hotel offers a full interior commission across guestrooms, restaurant, bar, reception, lounge, and social areas.
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Located 450 metres from the Glasgow School of Art, Arthouse Glasgow draws from the city’s creative identity without turning that reference into theme. A-nrd conceives the hotel as an artist’s residence, using layered interiors, retained architectural elements, custom joinery, vintage furniture, and local art to create a place that feels collected over time. The approach suits Glasgow, a city shaped by art education, industrial history, independent culture, and a strong relationship between making and place.
The project keeps key parts of the building’s original fabric wherever possible. Timber panelling, original floors, a birdcage lift, and stained-glass windows remain part of the design narrative, allowing the hotel to carry traces of its former life. A-nrd sets these elements against a restrained material palette, with contemporary interventions that draw from Glasgow’s industrial past. The result avoids a polished hotel uniform and gives the interiors a lived-in quality, closer to a private residence shaped by use, memory, and accumulation.
Guestrooms span four categories, from compact pocket rooms to larger suites. A-nrd designs bespoke king-size platform beds and integrated timber joinery for each room, including desks, coffee stations, wardrobe elements, and open clothing rails. These custom elements give the rooms a practical structure while reinforcing the studio’s wider spatial language. Contemporary furniture sits alongside vintage pieces, many reupholstered in collaboration with Scottish textile mill Bute Fabrics. This mix gives the rooms a curated quality, with texture and material carrying much of the atmosphere.
Local artwork plays a central role throughout the hotel. A-nrd embeds pieces by Glasgow and Scottish artists across guestrooms and shared spaces, sourcing works in collaboration with galleries including Patricia Fleming Gallery. This decision strengthens the hotel’s connection to the city’s creative institutions and moves the artist residence concept beyond styling. The art program gives Arthouse Glasgow a cultural position rooted in its location, allowing guests to encounter the city through its makers, galleries, and visual language.
The ground floor centers on two main spaces, a lounge and a restaurant, with reception placed between them and additional seating folded into the arrival area. The lounge functions as an all-day setting for guests and non-residents, with room for informal meetings, daytime work, and relaxed social use. This gives the hotel a civic quality, opening it toward the surrounding neighborhood and supporting Oberland’s aim to create places where locals and visitors can stay, work, meet, and spend time.
The restaurant, also designed by A-nrd, will be operated by Celentano’s, the acclaimed Glasgow Italian restaurant founded by Dean and Anna Parker. Its presence adds a local hospitality voice to the project and supports the hotel’s ambition to connect with the city through established talent. Together with the bar and social spaces, the restaurant gives Arthouse Glasgow a stronger public role within Bath Street’s urban setting.
Alessio Nardi describes the intention behind the project as a desire for the hotel to feel as though it had evolved over time, with an instinctive and curated atmosphere. That idea defines the strongest aspect of Arthouse Glasgow. A-nrd does not treat the historic building as a decorative shell or erase its character through excessive intervention. The studio works with what already exists, then adds custom elements, local collaborations, and a clear hospitality rhythm.
Arthouse Glasgow also reflects A-nrd’s broader practice, which focuses on hospitality and contemporary workspace environments through bespoke furniture, lighting, joinery, and a layered approach to material and spatial flow. For Oberland, the project introduces its first hotel under its own brand and sets out a model for properties shaped by adaptive reuse, cultural relevance, and neighborhood engagement. In Glasgow, that model finds a fitting address, turning a historic Bath Street building into a hotel informed by art, city life, and the character of collected interiors.
