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Homegrown hoteliers ESS Group — behind a raft of in style Swedish properties together with coastal hit Ystad Saltsjöbad and Slim-Aarons vibe Ellery Beach House within the Stockholm — archipelago have opened their most formidable property so far, Maryhill Estate. Combining a revamped former fortress and playful, pool membership resort near the water’s edge in Skåne, it has the design and finesse of a members’ membership with none of the stuffiness. The atmosphere is Gatsby-goes-to-the-countryside, and there’s a agency give attention to feasting and enjoyable, mirrored in a raft of eating places, bars and lounges, embellished in vibrant floral materials, with DJ-soundtracked swimming pools beneath shimmering disco balls. Pulling off what so many properties fail; interesting to each enterprise and leisure travellers, with out comprising on fashion. During the week the gang is skewed in direction of high-energy tech corporations bonding over backyard video games on brainstorming retreats. The temper’s jubilant at any time when issues ramps up a notch however at weekend, holidaymakers in wind-down and make-mischief mode arrive.
Set the scene
All grassy farmland and mustard-coloured rapeseed fields Skåne’s Glumslöv ranks extremely within the bucolic stakes. Maryhill Estate has a plum place on a small hilltop, in eight acre-grounds of parkland dotted with 250-year-old oaks, and lawns that spill in direction of the smoky blue-grey of the Øresund Strait. Making up the grand property, two venues sit within the grounds amid spiral-shaped topiaries and rhododendron bushes. First is grand Renaissance fortress Örenäs Slott, all cream pillars, Art Nouveau-style balconies and topped with a turquoise tower. Reimagined as Hill House, it has sixteen rooms, and pairs a Twenties Paris-meets-Brooklyn atmosphere, with historic options and a speakeasy-feel, locavore restaurant. Next door is is the newer Sugar Club, an lively 147-room resort with courtyard-shaped structure impressed by the positioning’s way-back-when farmyard setup.
Fusing reimagined 70s buildings and a gleaming terracotta-roofed glass and brick annexe, surrounds have greater than a touch of Soho Farmhouse-feel styling to them. Here, visitors in fluffy olive-hued robes with Aperol spritzes in-hand flit between indoor and out of doors swimming swimming pools lined with bloom-adorned chaise longues and fringed parasols, and throw darts and shoot pool in lounges with copper wood-burning fireplaces, deep, colour-pop sofas, Kentia palms, and a smattering of arty curio, from chessboard-topped tables to gilded lizard statues. A playful temper is underlined by doormats which declare ‘kindly dance with us,’ and Mediterranean feasts at Sugar Club restaurant.
Smartly-turned out workers with sunny demeanours drift between areas, prepared to speak and supply help. Providing Hill House hasn’t been booked for a personal occasion, visitors – irrespective of the place they’re sleeping – have entry to eating and services throughout each properties.
The backstory
Originally, the land right here was purchased by August Anderberg in 1867, who constructed a farmhouse and stables, named Mariehild in honour of his beloved spouse Marie. Since then, it’s had a storied historical past, with sugar baron Carl Tranchell taking it over within the late Nineteenth-century, who, craving for his personal fortress residence, set about constructing Örenäs Slott, accomplished in 1914. More just lately, at numerous occasions, the property has been owned by employees’ unions, and operated as a considerably practical convention venue and resort.
Ever since 2008, and ESS Group’s infancy, Founder Jonas Stenberg had pushed previous the property. Captivated by its rural locale the potential to craft a dreamy nation home resort, he phoned yearly to see if it was on the market. Fast ahead to mid-2020 and a slow-burn dream turned a actuality, and 4 years have been spent reimagining the property, making certain heritage appeal was retained, whereas bringing it bang-up-to-date, and consistent with ESS Groups’ ‘adult playground’ ethos; combining shiny interiors, top-notch consuming and eating venues, social areas value lingering in, and sufficient actions to maintain people entertained for no less than 48 hours.
The rooms
Scandi-minimalism and strict strains this isn’t; design, by Spik Studios, is rooted in the truth that Maryhill’s authentic title, in Anderberg’s time, was given as a gesture of affection. This interprets to an exuberant use of color — burnt siennas, dusky pinks, crimson-red, full-meadow greens — eclectic patterns — extra floral prints than Kew Gardens come spring, an abundance of stripes in Sugar Club, whereas in Hill House, a softer replace integrates historic parts — a curving authentic staircase with carved bannisters, chandelier lighting and restored ceiling medallions.
Sugar Club’s closer-to-the-pool-club-action suites are licked in predominantly ocean blues and greens. Some, in a horseshoe across the resort pool, have decks on the bottom stage and petite balconies increased flooring. Irreverent images by Pablo Frisk and curated by Mankovsky Gallery, hangs on the partitions; some black-and-white reveal life backstage at catwalk exhibits, whereas others, corresponding to a nude mannequin popping up from a area of lavender, pack tongue-in-cheek quirk. Given ESS Group’s system is constructed on holding visitors busy, bedrooms are designed to supply comfy retreat after days spent primarily gadding in regards to the wider property and sit on the compact facet (14-27 sq metres bar one 60 sqm suite) with engaging scallop-edged ceiling lighting, nautical-stripe cushions and headboards.
In extra intimate Hill House, whimsical romance and coral blush and navy palettes reign. Heritage structure means rooms have distinctive shapes and options; a porthole window right here, a skylight there.
Across each Hill House and Sugar Club, rooms are stocked with Swedish-made, vegan and cruelty-free Trey Ben citrus-woodsy scented toiletries, and people who covet the bespoke furnishings are in luck; it’s made by ESS Group’s shoppable way of life arm, Home of Ess. Handily, high suites even have a hand-held steamer, to make sure travel-rumpled glad rags look tip-top.
The foods and drinks
When Robert ‘Bobbo’ Nilsson, CEO of Maryhill Estate, throws a celebration, it’s one you wish to snag an invitation to – he is a former Scandinavian Chef of the Year with Michelin restaurant and Nobel Banquet kudos plus heaps of administration expertise within the luxe hospitality sphere.
Pleasingly, the bon vivant has injected his appreciable smarts, and convivial strategy throughout a roster of top-notch, eating choices the place music performs loud and proud, and chatter flows as simply because the drinks.
Mediterranean joint Sugar Club, overseen by chef David Parrott (ex-Amass) whips up plates piled-high with black truffle spaghetti, spanakopita, and baked cod with lemon and garlic, adopted by whipped mascarpone with raspberry and biscotti from a wood-panelled open kitchen. Served in a showstopper, vaulted, double-height barn-style constructing embellished with mirrors, glass chandeliers, olive bushes and fluted, floral seating, wine pairings are divided by temper – from ‘classy daydreaming’ to ‘well-travelled souls’. In the morning, buffet breakfasts are a ramification of all the pieces from cinnamon buns to knackerbrot, eggs and contemporary fruit, specified by a central space sectioned off by cafe-style curtains.
Channeling Twenties speakeasy, Hill House’s restaurant has a marble-topped, floral-wrapped bar topped by a parade of glowing mushroom-shaped lamps, lined by swivel stools at its coronary heart. A French-American menu displays native sourcing; suppose white asparagus with beurre noissette hollandaise, sourdough and lovage ravioli with chanterelles, Gammelknas cheese and fir shoots, and rhubarb with cardamom ice cream and salted meringue nibs.
Chilli-mint melon and honey-glazed fried hen could be ordered to get pleasure from from lounger in The Pool Club, alongside pitchers of tapdance aperitivo spritz. More low-key however as particular is Ålabodarna’s Harbor Restaurant, 5 minutes’ stroll from the grounds. This small fishing-village favorite sits proper on the waterside, and is successful with Swedish households who settle in for catch-of-the-day, fish’n’chips and halloumi and rocket salads, at a handful of wood tables adorned with dried flowers and tea lights.
Wellness
The headline draw is 4 swimming swimming pools. Sugar Club’s trio embrace a 22m, 34 diploma indoor-outdoor quantity straddling a glass conservatory – presided over by a disco ball – which peeps out into an al-fresco courtyard. A bigger freeform, unheated pool, ringed by inexperienced and white-striped daybeds is best suited to laps, and there’s a steamy sizzling pool subsequent to a sauna with Strait views. Hill House has a extra tranquil pool, behind the manor home, dealing with the Øresund.
As properly as pool and desk tennis tables and dartboards, there are a raft of outside pursuits from tennis and padel courts, to petanque, archery and croquet and a health club.
Generally the ambiance at Maryhill Estate leans in direction of grown up get togethers, with children needing to 16+, and accompanied by an grownup to entry any swimming pools. The vibe switches a little bit throughout faculty holidays, when households arrive and children underneath 16 are permitted to make use of the Hill House and sauna-side swimming pools throughout three-hour home windows every morning.
Accessibility
There’s one wheelchair-accessible room on the bottom flooring of Sugar Club, with seize rails and an computerized lavatory door. However there aren’t plenty of accessibility variations throughout the property, so greatest to verify in depending on particular person wants.
Eco effort
As properly as being Nordic Swan Ecolabel-certified – that means it adheres to stringent standards round benchmarks together with waste, power and disposables – the whole property runs on 100% inexperienced power. The carpark has 24 EV chargers to energy up visitor transport, and and the resort’s enterprise vehicles and shuttles. Beehives, wildflower meadows and herb planting between a brand new Solaris winery all assist to spice up biodiversity. In the kitchens, behind-the-scenes AI digital camera setups assist minimise meals waste, and at Hill House locally-grown produce is championed. Amenities are refillable and visitor slippers are reused, after being washed in-house.
Anything left to say
Private boat journeys to close by Ven and Helsingör could be organized. Future plans embrace a ramped-up kitchen and contemporary flower backyard, in addition to a jetty and watersports providing, and a clutch of former farmhouses-turned-residences. Take a ten-minute drive to Tomatens Hus to swoon at an ombre of work-of-art tomatoes cultivated in 8000 sqm greenhouses, and to pattern the legendary tomato pie at restaurant Miss Alice Krog & Butik. Also, it’s value making time to go to the brand new Kallbadhus in Landskrona. Close to the city’s sci-fi look water tower, a Magasin A-designed, black wood-panelled bathhouse sits on the finish of a 300m-pier which juts into the Öresund Strait for bracing dips adopted by heat ups while absorbing the Strait surroundings.