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Nobis Hotels hotels

Scandinavian architects give banks, schools and palaces new lives without erasing their character.

Nobis brings historic buildings into contemporary hotel life through Scandinavian architecture and design. The family-owned Stockholm group gives each address its own expression, with hotels in Sweden, Denmark, and Spain retaining the character of the buildings they occupy.

11 Nobis Hotels hotels in 3 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.

• Family-owned, led by founder Alessandro Catenacci
• On the atlas: 6 High Luxury, 5 Core Luxury

History

Nobis developed a particular interest in historic buildings through projects that came naturally to the family company. Claesson Koivisto Rune and Wingårdhs became recurring collaborators, helping existing structures find a contemporary hotel life. Materials and architecture retain a connection to the original building, giving each address a distinct place within the collection.

Timeline

• 1987 — Alessandro "Sandro" Catenacci, then 29, acquires the storied Nobis restaurant empire, Operakällaren (The Opera Cellar), Café Opera nightclub, Stallmästaregården, and Riche, creating a sensation in Sweden by taking over what had been among the country's most celebrated culinary institutions since the 1950s–60s under legendary chef Tore Wretman, "the father of Swedish gastronomy".
• 2000 — After years of negotiations with Swedish heritage authorities, Nobis Hospitality Group opens a 49-room boutique hotel at Stallmästaregården, the first inn in Stockholm, which had hosted Queen Kristina in the mid-17th century, becoming the group's debut hotel property.
• 2004 — Nobis acquires Hotel J, a maritime-inspired design hotel in Nacka Strand near Stockholm.
• 2009 — Hotel Skeppsholmen opens in a landmark building from 1699 on Skeppsholmen Island, with interiors by Claesson Koivisto Rune, the first Nobis hotel with a prominent design-architecture identity and a Design Hotels membership.
• 2010 — Flagship milestone: Nobis Hotel Stockholm opens at Norrmalmstorg 2–4, in two culturally protected 19th-century stone buildings redesigned by architecture trio Claesson Koivisto Rune; the 201-room hotel becomes the group's defining address and firmly establishes the Nobis Hotels name at the top of the Stockholm luxury market.
• 2011 — Hotel J expands, adding 113 new rooms and a modern events wing.
• 2013 — Miss Clara by Nobis opens in an Art Nouveau building from 1910 on Sveavägen (the former Ateneum girls' school), designed by Gert Wingårdh of Wingårdhs, beginning a long creative partnership between Nobis and Wingårdhs.
• 2017 (Sept 7) — Nobis Hotel Copenhagen opens, the group's first hotel outside Sweden, in a 5,500 sq m neoclassical landmark from 1903 (former Royal Danish Academy of Music, 1972–2008) near Tivoli Gardens; interiors by Wingårdhs.
• 2018 — Bank Hotel opens at Arsenalsgatan 6, in a 1910 Art Nouveau–Renaissance former bank building designed by Thor Thorén; interior design by London-based studio Universal Design Studio; joins Small Luxury Hotels of the World.
• 2019 (spring) — Blique by Nobis opens on Gävlegatan 18 in Stockholm's emerging Hagastaden district, in a 1930s warehouse originally designed for Philips by Sigurd Lewerentz, with Wingårdhs handling the hotel conversion and interiors; 249 rooms; Wingårdhs' fourth hotel for the group.
• 2021 (June) — Concepció by Nobis opens in Palma de Mallorca, the group's first property outside Scandinavia, in a 16th-century building (original structure 1576) that was once a soap factory; interior design by Wingårdhs; joins Design Hotels.
• 2023 (November) — Nobis Hotel Palma opens in the Old Town of Palma, housed in a 12th-century former medieval Islamic palace; 37 rooms; architecture by Jordi Herrero Arquitectos and Eduardo Garcia Acuna Arquitectos with interior design by Wingårdhs; becomes the third Nobis Hotels flagship.
• 2024 — Nobis Hotel Palma receives the MICHELIN Key (1 Key) and is named one of the world's most beautiful hotels at the Prix Versailles 2024.
• 2025 (Oct) — Hagastrand, Autograph Collection opens in Stockholm's Royal Haga Park (historic Kasernen 1 complex, originally built 1917–1922); 215 rooms; Wingårdhs interiors; becomes the first Autograph Collection hotel in Scandinavia; Nobis manages hotel operations.
• 2025 (Oct) — Nobis Hotel Stockholm and Nobis Hotel Copenhagen both awarded MICHELIN Keys in the 2025 MICHELIN Guide Hotels, joining Nobis Hotel Palma, making all three Nobis Hotels flagship properties MICHELIN Key holders.

The houses to know

1. Nobis Hotel Palma, Palma, Spain — The group's Mediterranean debut: 1,000 years of history, a 12th-century Muslim palace, a Gothic rebuild, and a modern Wingårdhs intervention, compressed into 37 bespoke rooms in the Old Town.
2. Hotel J, Stockholm, Sweden — The hotel is in Stockholm, Sweden.
3. Nobis Hotel Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden — The group's founding design flagship: two 19th-century stone buildings on Norrmalmstorg, redesigned by Claesson Koivisto Rune into a 201-room contemporary luxury landmark.
4. Nobis Hotel Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark — The group's Nordic expansion into Denmark: a neoclassical 1903 building redesigned by Wingårdhs, a former music conservatory whose concert halls and practice rooms became 75 bespoke hotel rooms.
5. Concepció by Nobis, Palma, Spain — The group's first step outside Scandinavia: 31 rooms in a 16th-century former soap factory at the junction of Palma's Old Town and Santa Catalina, designed by Wingårdhs.
6. Hotel Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden — The hotel occupies a protected 1699 naval barracks on Skeppsholmen Island, with interiors by Claesson Koivisto Rune.
7. Bank Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden — A 1910 Art Nouveau–Renaissance former bank on Arsenalsgatan, 115 rooms, four bars including the award-winning Le Hibou rooftop, and a founding story written in carved owls and squirrels above the entrance door.
8. Yasuragi, Stockholm, Sweden — The hotel is in Stockholm, Sweden.
9. Miss Clara by Nobis, Stockholm, Sweden — One of Stockholm's finest surviving Art Nouveau buildings, the 1910 Ateneum girls' school, reimagined by Gert Wingårdh into a 92-room urban design hotel on Sveavägen.
10. Blique by Nobis, Stockholm, Sweden — Wingårdhs designed the interiors of this 249-room hotel in a 1930s Sigurd Lewerentz warehouse.

Newest openings

• Hagastrand, Autograph Collection — Solna / Stockholm, Sweden — opened October 2025 — The group's largest single property (215 rooms) and its first Autograph Collection tie-up with Marriott Bonvoy; set in the converted 1917–1922 military barracks of Kasernen 1 in Stockholm's Royal Haga Park, beside Lake Brunnsviken; interiors by Wingårdhs; features a 2,500 sq m spa that includes Scandinavia's first snow room for cryotherapy, Sweden's first event sauna for guided rituals, an 18-meter pool, and a custom Gongmatic sound installation for immersive meditation; the hotel is managed by Nobis Hospitality Group and represents the brand's most ambitious wellness offering to date

Opening next

• No further openings were confirmed in the sources reviewed through June 2026. Hagastrand and Nobis Hotel Palma appear to fulfil the group’s earlier announcements of hotels under development in Stockholm and Palma de Mallorca.
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Every Nobis Hotels hotel on the atlas

Sweden

• Hotel J — Stockholm · High Luxury
• Hotel Skeppsholmen — Stockholm · High Luxury
• Nobis Hotel Stockholm — Stockholm · High Luxury
• Bank Hotel — Stockholm · Core Luxury
• Blique by Nobis — Stockholm · Core Luxury
• Miss Clara by Nobis — Stockholm · Core Luxury
• Stallmästaregården — Stockholm · Core Luxury
• Yasuragi — Stockholm · Core Luxury

Spain

• Concepció by Nobis — Palma · High Luxury
• Nobis Hotel Palma — Palma · High Luxury

Denmark

• Nobis Hotel Copenhagen — Copenhagen · High Luxury

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