Bathroom objects from Bette as central element in Rothenburg boutique hotel

For more than 20 years, Ulli and Christian Mittermeier have run a boutique hotel and gourmet restaurant in Rothenburg in their Villa Mittermeier. In 2017, the hotel and restaurant operators acquired the vacated neighboring building, the former entrepreneurial villa of a Rothenburg soap and perfume manufacturer from the founding period, and decided to transform it into a contemporary design hotel. In the eleven hotel rooms of Mittermeier's alter ego, open bathrooms take center stage, creating a particularly homey yet luxurious atmosphere.

One room was equipped with an exclusive bathtub from Bette in addition to the floor-level shower.

Where does a hotel guest look first when entering a new hotel room? This was the question asked by the Mittermeiers and Martin Schroth, of Architekturstudio Schroth, the firm that managed the conversion of the residential building into a hotel. Into the bathroom, because this reveals the standard and quality of the hotel. In hotel architectures, the bathroom has undergone a transformation in recent decades. What was once a closed, private area has become open spaces, and the bathtub is given as much importance as the hotel bed.

Showering takes center stage
In the hotel Mittermeier's alter ego, guests are greeted in their room by an open space that allows views of the shower, vanity and mirror. The showers are floor-level, generously designed, and equipped with two rain showers - for double showers - which can be individually controlled. A toilet niche is right next door, satin glass and sliding doors provide privacy here. The hotel's color scheme is black - floors and exterior facades are in black. So, too, in the hotel rooms. The floors are made of deep black solid oak parquet, and black tiles have been laid in the bathroom area, which merge seamlessly into the matte black wet area. Eleven differently sized BetteFloor Side shower surfaces in the matte color Raven with the almost invisible slip-resistant surface BetteAntirutsch Pro are used in total in the wet areas of the hotel.

Suite with bathtub
In addition to the guest rooms, the hotel also houses a suite that features the free-standing bathtub BetteLux Shape in addition to the floor-level shower. With its reduced skeleton construction, it is a piece of furniture in its own right. Steel forms the supporting, open frame in which the tub made of glazed titanium steel is suspended. Its inner body is soft and flowing, its rim runs out flat. The bathtub BetteLux Shape was positioned centrally in the room and immediately catches the eye upon entering. At the same time, its filigree frame lends the room lightness and coziness - it is, after all, a bedroom bathroom.

PHOTOGRAPHY Jan Schmiedel
Jan Schmiedel

BETTE

Bette is a German family-owned company. Since 1952, we have been producing high-quality architectural bath elements made of pure natural glazed titanium steel in Delbrück, Germany. Bette products give the greatest possible design freedom in the bathroom. Excellent design, unique material quality and extremely high dimensional variability characterize our range. Each Bette bath element can be individually configured with additional equipment or dimensional adjustments using installation accessories.

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