Savoy Hotel Copenhagen is a 66-room, privately run hotel located at

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34 in the Vesterbro district of

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. The hotel is based in the rear wing of the Løvenborg Building, Denmark's first example of

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. The building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1885. It is owned by

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History

The building was constructed for master joiner Carl Kaas-Rasmussen. In 1906, he demolished the existing buildings at the site. They included a four-storey residential building from 1861. The new building was completed the following year with the assistance of the architect

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. It originally contained a cinema and a shop in the ground floor, commercial space in the middle floors, a residential apartment on the fourth floor and a

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in the attic. The building was acquired by the ''Bygningsbevaringsfonden'' in 1995. It was subsequently restored and refurbished with the assistance of Erik Møller Arkitekter. It received the

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in 2003. The building has later been acquired by the Margot and Thorvald Dreyer Foundation.

Architecture

The building was in several ways a novelty at the time of its construction. It is the first example of the

style in Denmark, Rosen being its main proponent in the country. The facade is richly decorated. Not part of the supporting structure, it is the first example of a curtain wall in Denmark. Løvenborg also features the first elevator in Denmark, still fully functioning. The building was listed in 1985.

Hotel Savoy

The 66-room Hotel Savoy is operated by a separate company in the rear wing of the building. As of 1 May 2019, Christian Oxlund sold it to Karim Nielsen.

References

External links

Official website
of Savoy Hotel
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