Positioned on a tree-lined street in Stuttgart-Mitte, a six-storey building clad in pale limestone panels and framed by dark-steel window mullions sets a calm, residential tone before you step inside — the kind of contemporary European construction that refuses to announce itself. EmiLu Design Hotel, which arrived on the Stuttgart scene in 2019 with 74 rooms across its compact footprint, was designed with interiors by local studio Ippolito Fleitz Group, whose characteristic approach — saturating each room in a distinct colour field rather than pursuing a single house palette — gives the property an unusually varied interior personality. The rooms move between deep lacquer-red walls paired with brushed-brass cylinder bedside tables and warm walnut headboards, and quieter sage-green schemes where copper-toned curtains and slender brass swing-arm sconces produce something closer to a considered Milanese apartment than a hotel room. At the top of the building, the rooftop bar resolves into near-darkness: near-black walls recede behind a polished brass bar counter and an orbital brass pendant light composition that dominates the ceiling, the whole space opening onto panoramic Stuttgart views. Down at ground level, the breakfast room mixes terrazzo flooring, raw concrete-effect plaster walls, and Saarinen Tulip chairs alongside upholstered banquettes — a confident gathering of mid-century and contemporary references that holds together through material restraint rather than thematic rigidity.

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EmiLu is a privately run Design Hotel in the center of Stuttgart with exclusive interior design and a familial atmosphere. The hotel has 90 rooms, 11 of which are suites (six of them with a balcony and five without), a sauna and fitness area, three conference rooms, the Fritz lobbybar, the breakfast restaurant Fritz and Lennarts rooftop location, as well as a parking garage with 29 parking spots.