Hotel The Noblemen, Amsterdam review: innovative design meets old world charm

A boutique canal house that turns Dutch history into a luxury experience

The Rembrandt van Rijn signature room at Hotel The Noblemen in Amsterdam
The Rembrandt van Rijn signature room
(Image credit: Hotel The Noblemen)

Opened in 2021, Hotel The Noblemen takes its name to heart and has an interior that demonstrates serious artistic flair. It’s all down to the opulent and stylistically unabashed vision of Dutch designer Stef van der Bijl, who has a reputation for restoring and repurposing antique and industrial objects to suit a luxury environment.

Each of the 13 rooms that make up this 17th century boutique Amsterdam canal house, which overlooks the Leidsegracht, is dedicated to a different seminal character from the Dutch Golden Age. Ornate, elaborate and fabulously imaginative, each room is a super luxurious cabinet of curiosities, equipped with a giant and exquisitely handcrafted leather-bound four poster bed, constructed on site due to the narrow dimensions of the staircase. There’s no lift here, but this only adds to the authenticity of the stay – the house’s first owner was a marble merchant called Isaac Foucquier, so every squeak and creak is a reminder of the rich ancestry that permeates every corner of this historic building. In fact, part of the ground floor space is still clad in Foucquier’s original marble slabs.

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