good neighbor, a neighborhood dwelling for international manufacturers and locally-designed items, is asserting a brand new hospitality idea, guesthouse opening in Baltimore in late summer season 2023. A hospitality various that options the touchstones of what our neighbors have come to anticipate: seven distinctive, design-immersive, thoughtfully curated areas which are a completely shoppable expertise. guesthouse is the complete realization of staying at a beloved one’s dwelling.
Shawn Chopra designed every room with heritage in thoughts and a love for contemporary design. Supplies from Baltimore, Egypt, North Africa, and India, the place Shawn and his spouse are from, knowledgeable his design selections. Shawn pushed to reimagine bigger landmarks, such because the Pyramids of Giza or the step-wells in India, into inside particulars, such because the foyer bar and the powder room sink, whereas bringing them to life with a sustainable staff of makers from Baltimore and supplies sourced domestically.
Shawn’s design background is rooted in childhood recollections. As a son of immigrant mother and father from India, who labored laborious to construct a life stateside, Shawn’s mother and father’ would purchase an outdated dwelling in lesser situation and renovate whereas residing in it over a while earlier than shifting onto one other fixer-upper – this led Shawn to turn out to be immersed with interiors, renovations, and design rising up gutting, portray, framing and furnishing quite a few properties through the years. Holidays had been by no means a typical observe for his household, apart from visiting India each few years, particularly the city of Chandigarh, India, the place Shawn’s mother and father met. Chandigarh is among the design capitals of the world. It’s a historic UNESCO website now, because it was the primary fashionable brutalist metropolis designed by French architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeannerret on the request of India’s first PM after British rule, Jawaharlal Nehru. Town was inherently constructed to settle India’s religiously various inhabitants and refugees and be a house and secure area for everybody it doesn’t matter what background – to do such, intelligent and open design was wanted. Likewise, this concept knowledgeable Shawn’s preliminary design transient and course of a superb neighbor in 2019.
good neighbor was based by Shawn Chopra and his spouse, Anne Morgan with the purpose of making a seamless, multi-touchpoint retail idea, constructed round being a superb neighbor and welcoming folks into your property.
It combines their love of design with their immigrant tradition of considerable hospitality — going above and past for his or her visitors in all areas together with meals & drink – anticipating and curating wants of every visitor fostering an open group full of considerate merchandise, and sparking creativity and dialog round artwork, design, trend, music and movie.
Facilities will embrace and take design inspiration from manufacturers bought contained in the store:
- Maryland oak mattress frames and customized millwork by good neighbor’s in-house design staff
- Baltimore Douglas fir reclaimed flooring by Brick & Board
- Lighting by MENU
- Customized concrete counter tops designed by native maker, LukeWorks
- Unique paintings and ceramics by artists from Baltimore and India
- Scandinavian birch wooden bathtub equipment by Iris Hantverk
- Apothecary and aromas by Le Labo
- Oeko-tex licensed cotton towels and linens designed by good neighbor
- Sound methods by Bang & Olufsen
- Samsung Body Tv
- Stationary designed in collaboration with Odette Press
- Artisanal Bejmat Zellige tiles, crafted in Spain
- Mini-refrigerator
- Curated wine, beer, and snacks
The boutique lodge has seven rooms obtainable from $139 – $295 an evening.
good neighbor Guesthouse
3827 Falls Rd
Baltimore, MD 21211
United States
+1 443-627-8919
