Flesslers Lenggries, Germany

After extensive renovation work lasting around a year and a half, the Flesslers Lenggries will celebrate its relaunch at the end of September 2025. The traditional former Arabella Brauneck Hotel has been completely modernized and extended to create a new building. The hotel now positions itself as an individually styled boutique hotel with a unique design concept that echoes the aesthetics of the 1970s while focusing on the view of the Alps. With a total of 114 rooms, including six spacious suites with up to 48 square meters of living space and sweeping views, the hotel offers a wide range of accommodation options. The name “Flesslers” refers to the historical tradition of rafting on the Isar River, which has had a significant influence on the history and identity of the region.

A central design element of the hotel is its sophisticated lighting concept. Transparent, coloured acrylic surfaces create a sense of lightness and set specific accents, while a wide range of different lights each create their own moods. This creates individually characterized areas – from the bar to various table and lounge areas to the rooms and suites. In the bathrooms, indirect lighting behind the mirrors creates a soft play of colors in pastel shades, which is reflected many times over in the smooth surfaces. Overall, the deliberately staged lighting at Flesslers Lenggries creates a lively atmosphere inspired by retro elements and gives the rooms an almost special, floating effect.

For the interior design concept developed and planned by JOI Design, we, the lighting design office weiser lighting, put their ideas in the right light.

Following our philosophy of perception-oriented lighting design, we have created a setting that transports visitors and guests back to the mood of the 1970s. Throughout the public areas of the building, a mix of formal and decorative, playful luminaires inspired by the Flower Power years creates a warm lighting scene. The highlight in the truest sense of the word is the Echo Rooftop Bar on the 6th floor of the hotel building, especially the way there. Ceiling lights with a diameter of 600 mm mounted in a double row illuminate the corridor and the bar itself in pastel shades that follow the course of daylight, in bright blue in the morning and in an amber sunset mood in the evening.

Guests can also revel in the light of custom-made 1970s-style luminaires in the guest rooms.

In addition to renovating the original hotel, a new three-story extension was added. An art composition of 15 vibrant but deflated basketballs is mounted above molded stadium seating, while ceiling light spokes are covered by orange “cages” in staggered sizes to suggest the podiums where the first, second, and third medals are awarded.

The lighting in all public areas of the hotel is controlled by a lighting control system. The respective lighting moods change automatically in accordance with the course of daylight.