Joie de Vivre Hotels is set to unveil the 86-room Epiphany Hotel in downtown Palo Alto, California. Opening in March, the hotel is located in Silicon Valley, close to University Avenue and Stanford.
“The Epiphany Hotel is tapped into Silicon Valley, inspired by the local streets and neighboring start-up businesses,” says Niki Leondakis, CEO of Commune Hotels & Resorts, Joie de Vivre’s parent company. “[It’s] a playful, authentic property full of imagination and aligned with the local lifestyle.”
Originally constructed in the 1970s, the building is being rebuilt from the ground up under the direction of Steinberg Architects. The exterior-paneled with perforated metal-retains the original façade’s six-story-tall mosaic portrait of El Palo Alto, the thousand-year-old coastal redwood that gave the city its name.
New York- and San Francisco-based MCCARTAN, who created Joie de Vivre’s Hotel Vitale in San Francisco, is handling the interiors. The lobby will feature a light installation designed by Palo Alto’s IDEO with 100 customizable, individually wired and controlled LEDs. IDEO also designed the hotel’s mezzanine-level meeting and co-working spaces, including the Accelerator work lounge and Tinderbox boardroom.
Guestrooms and suites will be modern yet warm, while the suites will feature high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, wood flooring, and family-style dining tables. On the ground floor of the Epiphany Hotel, an 80-seat indoor-outdoor restaurant and bar will serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
