Tortue, Hamburg, Germany

January 27, 2021

Architects: Kate Hume, Joyce Wang, Stephen Williams Associates, David Chipperfield Architects

Rooms: 114 double rooms, 8 suites, 4 long-stay apartments

Opening: June 2018

Founders and managing directors: Marc Ciunis and Carsten von der Heide

Glamorous serenity: the boutique hotel Tortue follows a beautiful idea. It wants to slow down the speed of modern life a little. The name Tortue, which is French for tortoise, alludes to the time of Napoleon. At the beginning of the 19th century, well-dressed dandies and Bohemians strolled along the glamorous streets of Paris and Hamburg accompanied by a tortoise on a lead. The tortoises set the pace, and at the time stood for the sheer luxury of having time. Guests from all over the world should also celebrate this luxury at the Tortue. Here they will find the leisure to sharpen their senses for the essential and the details, to immerse themselves in life, and to discover new perspectives. The overall architectural concept is by David Chipperfield. The hotel’s architecture is characterised by mosaic tiles, vaulted windows, high ceilings and wrought-iron detailing that harmonise particularly well with the frescoes by the French Art Nouveau painter Adrian Karbowsky of 1910.

The British designer Kate Hume was responsible for the interior concept of the 126 rooms, the lobby and the Bar Bleu; the Brasserie was created in cooperation with Stephen Williams. Hume knows that bathroom is the perfect place for winding down completely and simply switching off. That’s why she deliberately designed the bathrooms to reflect the hotel’s guiding principle. This is a place where guests can relax into themselves and experience wellness. The reduced colours in the bathrooms encourage rest. The interior designer opted for glazed titanium steel as the material for the showers and baths, choosing the Ultra shower tray and the Ocean and Lux and Lux Oval Silhouette baths. The result? Contrasting forms and different materials form an architecturally coherent concept overall.

LUX OVAL SILHOUETTE — Copyright © TORTUE HAMBURG

Up & On Deck

Collected Works Joan Goldin

about 2 years ago

Final Days: Forms of Nature, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library

about 2 years ago

The Goldkorn Variations: a trilorgy, Leslie Epstein

about 3 years ago

Newswire

press releases & placements

INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPHER RICKS ABOUT THE LYRICS Dylan Review Vol. 1.2. Winter 2019, Interviews Christopher Ricks spoke to DR about The Lyrics., co-edited in 2014 with Lisa Nemrow and Julie Nemrow of Un-Gyve Press. "There are great American traditions of pretending that the printed page is a performing art, so Whitman goes on and on revising, and Henry James goes on and on."

REREADING RANSOM Wyatt Prunty Kenyon Review July/August 2017 "Ransom’s poems are the subject at hand. They have been reprinted in an elegantly produced Collected Poems. Any reader who opens this book will want to own it."

REREADING RANSOM Wyatt Prunty July/Aug 2017 issue of the Kenyon Review — REREADING RANSOM Wyatt Prunty July/Aug 2017 issue of the *Kenyon Review*

HARVARD REVIEW Inside the Book feature WITH A CUBAN SONG IN THE HEART Iván Acosta "The music in this collection informs and interacts with every moment in With a Cuban Song in the Heart...."

Azteca News Miércoles 12 de Abril de 2017 Sección Literaria CON UNA CANCION CUBANA EN EL CORAZON Por Iván Acosta Editorial UN-GYVE PRESS —"Un texto para apreciar, para obsequiar y para disfrutar."

John Crowe Ransom’s Quarrel with Himself The Hudson Review Spring 2016 (Volume LXIX, No. 1) Robert Archambeau — "Almost thirty years ago, Ransom’s biographer Thomas Daniel Young spoke of the urgent need for a variorum edition of Ransom’s poetry, and only now, with the appearance of Ben Mazer’s Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom, do we have one. It is a shame that it took so very long for someone to answer Young’s call, but it is a boon to all who care for
Ransom’s work that Mazer was the one to do so: his scrupulously
edited book includes all of Ransom’s textual variants in detailed
end notes."

Classic Ransom The Hopkins Review Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2016 Ryan Wilson — "Certainly, lay-readers and scholars alike, both of the present and of the future, owe Mr. Mazer a debt of gratitude for his formidable editorial achievement."

Poet of the Violent and the Chaste The New York Review of Books Helen Vender April 21 2016 Issue — Ben Mazer, editor The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve Press) "...painstakingly edited and well introduced by Ben Mazer...."

By foul subtraction
John Greening
04 November 2015
Literature & Poetry TLS — Ben Mazer, editor The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve Press) “has done us a great service in producing this mighty and handsome Collected Poems....”

Alex Shakespeare "On in Prose" FALL/WINTER 2015 Volume 8.1 Literary Matters — “Each one of the book’s forty-two patchwork pieces is brief, but the effects are wide and deep.” Kasia Buczkowska's in Prose, Un-Gyve Press.

‘Paris’ memories APRIL 18, 2015 Boston Globe — “Marian Parry’s The Paris Book (Un-Gyve Press) is an exquisitely drawn love story that dates back to her childhood....” Jan Gardner

WINTER-SPRING 2015 Bostonia “In the Service of Bob Dylan’s Genius — The Lyrics is an elegant, outsized tribute to the Bard” Susan Seligson

Editors of The Lyrics (from left) Lisa Nemrow, Julie Nemrow, and Christopher Ricks. Photo by Cydney Scott — Editors of *The Lyrics* (from left) Lisa Nemrow, Julie Nemrow, and Christopher Ricks. Photo by Cydney Scott

Feb. 19, 2015 Issue

New York Review of Books: “Bob Dylan’s Genius” — The Lyrics. as never before “has so meticulously and so brilliantly set these words in lines and stanzas, which remind us that some of the greatest lyric poems, from Shakespeare and Thomas Campion and George Herbert to the Child Ballads and beyond, are written accommodations of performance.”

The Lyrics. Bob Dylan in GQ Magazine among Literary Editor Olivia Cole’s selected best of the year

The Lyrics. Bob Dylan in The New Yorker: Nine Great Poetry Books of 2014

The Lyrics. Since 1962, Bob Dylan, a TLS Book of the Year.

January 2015
The Paris Book: Select Morsel

BOSTON, Oct. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/

Un-Gyve Press to Publish Selected Poems of Greg Delanty

A sense of vital, actual experience is in fact wonderfully sustained in Delanty's verse in its notable linguistic energy, product of a distinctive fusion ...

Oct 07, 2014, 14:05 ET

Un-Gyve Press to Publish With a Cuban song in the heart by acclaimed playwright, Iván Acosta

Rich in sentiment, anecdote and history, it is a sincere and authentic book which will inform and delight its readers. I recommend it with enthusiasm.

—Oscar Hijuelos

October 8, 2014 | Rolling Stone
Every Bob Dylan Lyric Ever to Fill 13-Pound, 960-Page Book
By Kory Grow

Bob Dylan's lyrics will be compiled in the new book The Lyrics: Since 1962                 John Cohen/Getty — Bob Dylan's lyrics will be compiled in the new book *The Lyrics: Since 1962* John Cohen/Getty

Oct 07, 2014 2:33 PM

The Most of Bob Dylan
By ALLAN KOZINN

When music fans in the 1960s described Bob Dylan’s songs, in terminology of the day, as “heavy,” they didn’t know the half of it.

The Lyrics. Since 1962 in New York Times — *The Lyrics. Since 1962* in *New York Times*

Oct 02, 2014, 14:01 ET

Un-Gyve Press to Publish Views of the Haunts and Homes of the British Poets, Oct. 19 1850

From our Un-Gyve archives, an original sequence of thirty-nine small watercolours by an unknown artist, the home or haunt and the poet being...

Sep 25, 2014, 16:21 ET

Un-Gyve Press to Publish Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom edited by Ben Mazer

Of the tread of the dark wood mold and turfy rye, / Rich smell of horse in his nostril, wind in his eye, – from "In Air,"...

Sep 25, 2014, 08:00 ET

Three Talks by Christopher Ricks THE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION 15 EAST 65th STREET, NYC | 7:30PM

Jun 18, 2014, 15:32 ET

Mark Chester's Touring Exhibit Twosomes at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography

Mark Chester's Twosomes touring exhibit and award-winning companion book from Un-Gyve Press represents images culled from his...

May 29, 2014, 20:35 ET

Un-Gyve Press Publishes The Paris Book by Marian Parry

In 1952 Ben Shahn said to Marian Parry, "Marian, make the most beautiful book you can and I'll take it to Curt Valentin." She made The Paris...

May 13, 2014 - The Pursuitist:
Marian Parry’s ‘The Paris Book’ Published After 60 Years

In 1952, Marian Parry presented her editor Curt Valentin with The Paris Book, a series of illustrations depicting the French capital during the ...

May 29, 2014, 19:23 ET

Un-Gyve Press Publishes in Prose by Kasia Buczkowska

Kasia Buczkowska is a writer and translator in New York City, who writes very short fiction in Polish and English. She studied English...

REALITY CHECK - Dave Fries’ Top 10 Albums Of 2013

December 2013 Eric Harabadian on REALITY CHECK for Jazz Inside

‘“Masters of musical dialogue”; that’s how leader Greg Hopkins describes his creative cohorts on this album. And who could dispute him? It’s evident from the first note that there is a rich connection that’s taken place throughout these recording sessions and between the participants involved. This record, essentially, is about seasoned vets that have nurtured their sound for a significant amount of time. And here are the results of their diligent road work and artistic commitment....’