W Nashville is now open. Located in the Gulch neighborhood, the 14-story mirrored tower was designed from the outside in, with six street-level entrances that offer access to hotel guests and locals alike.
What can guests expect? The hotel has introduced a new W Hotels concept, the Welcome Den. Accessible only by room key, it is a space where hotel guests can relax, take a work call and enjoy a specially crafted beverage. W Nashville has 286 rooms and 60 suites, including two Extreme WOW Suites. The brand’s signature Mix Bar is a focal point, illuminated in a gold, mirrored cage to facilitate in-room entertaining. Good to know: Guests receive a reusable water bottle upon arrival to use with the cocktail ice and filtered water stations on each floor. All WOW and Extreme WOW Suites have balconies and offer overhead views of the WET Deck. Extreme WOW Suites also offer a music booth, dining area, lounge and a pantry kitchen.
Each guestroom at W Nashville has an original, commissioned artwork by Brooklyn-based studio FAILE. Additional artist exposure includes embossed, hand-stitched leather wall panels with roses and guitar pick details by leatherworker Joseph Verzilli of Lockeland Leather and Derrick Castle of Straw Castle, as well as a Jimi Hendrix mural by street artist Bryan Deese on the building’s façade.
W Nashville has over 24,000 square feet of meeting and event space. The Great Room was inspired by the quilting techniques of Nashville artisans and has a metal and glass framed façade that carries daylight across the floor. Pre-event spaces include intimate seating nooks with felted walls with pastoral Tennessee landscapes adorning the alcoves, reflecting an adoration for Nashville’s natural beauty.
The Spanish Steps are 42 flights of concrete stairs interlaced with wood seating platforms that double as a meeting place and amphitheater (a nod to the iconic meeting spot in Rome) with a live music stage below. Perched above is the 10,000-square-foot WET Deck, with a 2,000-square-foot, L-shaped pool with private cabanas. A short walk from the pool is the manicured yoga lawn which leads to FIT, W Nashville’s fitness center.
Besides the WET Deck bar, there are six other drinking and dining venues at W Nashville. Nashville-born coffee shop Barista Parlor offers a “Coffee Courier” service for guestrooms, as well as a Secret Garden. Behind Barista Parlor’s copper wire-draped curtain is the Living Room, which is reminiscent of a recording studio. Adjacent to the Living Room bar and hidden behind a speaker wall is the Sound Room, a private, indoor-outdoor event space. Proof, the 14th-floor rooftop bar takes inspiration from the Gulch’s historical train rail yard. Here, the hotel’s collection of original Jim Marshall prints is on display. Four sliding garage doors line the outdoor terraces, providing a 360-degree view of the city and, when open, offers access to outdoor seating and a hidden sunset catwalk.
There are two restaurants by Chef Andrew Carmellini: The Dutch, an all-day dining venue with an American comfort menu and a bar terrace overlooking the 25-foot Hendrix mural; and Carne Mare, an evening-only, fine-dining, contemporary Italian chop house.
For more information, visit www.wnashville.com.
A version of this story originally appeared on www.travelagentcentral.com.
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