Hotel De Plesman

Hospitality — The Hague

From former KLM head office to hotel, with bespoke work for the public areas.

Summary

For Hotel De Plesman in The Hague, we delivered the bespoke interior for the hotel’s public areas, including the entrance area, Restaurant Suus and Albert Bar & Lounge. A special hospitality project in which the monumental character of the former KLM head office meets a warm, contemporary interior.

Client

Hotel De Plesman

Sector

Hospitality

Location

The Hague

Completed

2025

Hotel De Plesman — bar and lounge with a timber coffered ceiling, geometric parquet and a long bar

Project

KLM’s former head office on the Plesmanweg, a 1939 national monument designed by architect Dirk Roosenburg, has been transformed into Hotel De Plesman, with more than a hundred hotel rooms, residences, meeting facilities, Restaurant Suus and Albert Bar & Lounge. For this transformation, we delivered the bespoke interior in the hotel’s public areas; the hotel rooms were outside our scope.

Hotel De Plesman — restaurant bar with a green marble top and an open oak bottle rack

Hotel De Plesman — rust-red velvet sofa with vertical channels behind a round table

Approach

The interior design by Nicemakers follows the building’s original architecture and history, with warm materials and clear references to the past. For Hemlock, this meant bespoke work for several hospitality settings, each with its own function and atmosphere: from arrival and lingering to restaurant, bar and lounge.

Hotel De Plesman — mahogany bar with bar stools in front of a tiled wall and an arched steel overhead rack

Detail

Restaurant Suus is one of the most striking spaces, with wooden booths and a bar in which wood and green marble come together, among other things. In Albert Bar & Lounge, bespoke work, warm materials and various seating and lounge areas create a different atmosphere, while both spaces remain part of the same interior concept.

History as part of the interior

The location gives the project extra meaning. The building was designed in 1939 as KLM’s head office and bears the name of aviation pioneer Albert Plesman. That history also returns in the new functions: Albert Bar & Lounge is named after Albert Plesman and Restaurant Suus after his wife, Suus.

Hotel De Plesman — round table with wooden chairs beneath the curved void of restaurant Suus

Hotel De Plesman — bespoke booths with curved backs in a green and white pattern

Hotel De Plesman — bar stools at the mahogany bar with a brass foot rail

Credits

Interior design:: Nicemakers

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