Hotel Preanger, Indonesian company
Hotel Preanger is a colonial-era hotel in central Bandung, Java, Indonesia, built in the Art Deco style. The property includes guest rooms, a restaurant, and function halls, and its facade along Asia Africa Street is one of the most recognizable old buildings in the city.
The hotel was founded in the late 19th century as a modest guesthouse serving plantation owners and traders passing through the region. In the 1920s, Dutch architect C.P. Wolff Schoemaker oversaw a major rebuilding that gave the hotel its current Art Deco facade.
The hotel takes its name from the Priangan highlands, the Sundanese name for the mountainous region surrounding Bandung. Walking through the lobby, visitors can notice how European colonial styling and local Indonesian motifs appear side by side in the carved details and tiled floors.
The hotel sits on Asia Africa Street in central Bandung, close to Gedung Merdeka, so many points of interest are within walking distance. Guests who plan to explore the surrounding area on foot will find mornings the easiest time, before traffic builds up along the main roads.
A young architecture student named Sukarno, who later became Indonesia's first president, contributed sketches to the hotel's 1920s renovation while studying under Wolff Schoemaker. The hotel also hosted delegates during the 1955 Asia-Africa Conference, though the formal sessions took place in the neighboring Gedung Merdeka.
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