Miss Clara - once a Girls' School, now a fine Design Hotel
Miss Clara is one of those rare hotels that we enter and immediately feel at home.
It's centrally located yet away from the hustle and bustle, refined but not stiff, spacious yet intimate.
In high-ceilinged rooms with stylish bathrooms, we sleep in unbelievably cozy beds.
The inviting bar on the ground floor offers a nightcap in the evening and a delicious Swedish breakfast in the morning, preparing us to explore Stockholm refreshed.
In the culture-rich district of Norrmalm, with the Royal Opera, Kulturhuset and Konserthuset, a distinguished girls' boarding school fits seamlessly.
Across from the neoclassical Fredrik's Church with its small park, on Sveavägen, in one of Stockholm's best-preserved Art Nouveau buildings, once stood such a cultured girls' school.
The elegant hotel, named after the headmistress Miss Clara Stromberg, retains a touch of the former school's discipline in its simple Scandinavian decor.
In the grand old staircase with its ornate wrought-iron railing, we can easily imagine chattering, laughing schoolgirls and often skip the elevator ourselves.
Gothenburg architect Gert Wingårdh, who also designed the contemporary Swedish embassy in Berlin, has sensitively transformed the 1910 school building into a design hotel.
Monochrome natural colors and soft fabrics, large bright windows and warm lighting, dark herringbone parquet in the rooms and mocha-brown stone floors in the milky white-tiled bathrooms make Miss Clara a wonderful haven of comfort.
