Villa Terminus

An 18-room boutique hotel in central Bergen, Norway, Villa Terminus is both a treasure trove of history and a temple of modern design. Built in 1769 as the city’s first care home for the elderly, the Baroque villa has been refurbished and rejuvenated by Swedish architecture and design maestros Claesson Koivisto Rune to become the most beautiful hotel in Bergen – and one of its smallest. Its rooms and halls are a real-life tour through a catalogue of landmark mid-century and modern-day design icons (Russell Pinch tables, Arne Jacobson lamps, Jasper Morrison chairs, Ilse Crawford wall lamps, Andreas Engesvik blankets, the list goes on…), and each uniquely designed bedroom pays tribute to a figurehead of Norwegian literature. Sat slap next door to its big sister, Grand Hotel Terminus, Villa Terminus is a thoroughly modern fusion of Bergen history, Norwegian culture and game-changing Scandinavian creativity that’s set to delight design lovers and, y’know, normal people alike.