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Sommerro
Oslo, Norway · Nordic Hotels & Resorts · High Luxury
Sommerro opened in September 2022 inside Oslo Lysverker's 1931 power-company headquarters in Frogner, wrapping the listed Vestkantbadet bathhouse that Bjercke and Eliassen finished in 1932. Five years of restoration, more than three billion kroner, Norway's largest Art Deco preservation. Per Krohg's mosaic still covers the bathhouse wall; original tiles and changing cubicles survived. GrecoDeco did the interiors. Two hundred thirty-one rooms, a cinema, Michelin One Key.
- 231 rooms
- Opened 2022
- Neighborhood: Frogner
- Architect: Andreas Bjercke and Georg Eliassen; LPO Arkitekter
- Interiors: GrecoDeco
About Sommerro
- Occupies the restored 1931 Oslo Lysverker headquarters, with Per Krohg's mosaic still on the bathhouse wall.
- More than three billion kroner and five years of work: Norway's largest Art Deco preservation, reopened September 2022.
- Wraps the listed Vestkantbadet, the 1932 Art Deco public bath that was then Norway's largest indoor pool.
History
Sommerro opened in September 2022 in Oslo’s Frogner district, but its story begins much earlier in the city’s interwar civic infrastructure. The hotel occupies the former headquarters of Oslo Lysverker, the municipal power company, and incorporates the listed Vestkantbadet bathhouse, a protected Art Deco landmark that opened in 1932. According to Sommerro, Vestkantbadet was designed by architects Bjerke and Eliassen as a sanctuary for health and wellbeing, and the restored bathhouse retains original tiles, changing cubicles, and Per Krohg’s monumental mosaic wall. The property’s own history materials make clear that the restoration was extensive: Sommerro says Vestkantbadet reopened after five years of careful restoration, while the hotel’s public-facing rooms preserve traces of the building’s office life, including the former boardroom and the General Director’s office of Oslo Lysverker.
The reuse of the Oslo Lysverker building gives Sommerro a strong sense of place. The hotel is not a purpose-built new structure but a layered conversion of a 1930s landmark into a contemporary hospitality and culture venue. Sommerro describes itself as a house of rooms, restaurants, bars, a cinema, and wellness spaces, with Vestkantbadet at its heart. Its web materials also point to the building’s heritage details, including art and figures associated with Norway’s cultural history, such as Per Krohg, Asbjørg Borgfeldt, and filmmaker Tancred Ibsen. In that sense, Sommerro’s history is as much about preservation and adaptive reuse as it is about hospitality: a municipal power-house-era complex reborn as one of Oslo’s most historically resonant hotels.
The setting
1 km from Vigeland Museum. 53 km from Oslo Airport.
Restaurants and bars
- Barramon — Restaurant
- TAK Oslo — Restaurant · Japanese
- Izakaya Bar & Terrace — Restaurant
- Ekspedisjonshallen — Restaurant
Amenities
- Spa
- Indoor pool
- Fitness center
- Cinema
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- MICHELIN One Key (2026)
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