No. 12 Calder Street · Printers’ Quarter

A house hotel with twelve keys

Twelve keys. One front desk.

A small hotel in a 1931 printworks. The presses are gone, the ink stains are not. Every room has a real brass key, and somebody is always at the desk to hand it over.

See the rooms

Book a key

No.

The Corner

Check-in

15:00

Check-out

11:00

Breakfast

07:00 – 11:00

Front desk

All night

§ 01 — The house

In 1931 this building printed the city’s train timetables. Today it keeps twelve rooms, a breakfast counter with no menu, and the original press-room floor, ink stains included.

1931

Built as a printworks

12

Keys, cut by hand

4

The Inkwell

Courtyard

Queen

20 m²

From

€170

/ night

§ 03 — Included with every key

Everything on the slip.

Brassline · Front desk

Slip No. 000412

Breakfast at the counter

Included

Brass key, hand cut

Yours to hold

Bicycles

On request

Late check-out

Ask the desk

Record player

Most rooms

Wi-Fi

Fast, free

Thank you. Come again.

Brassline · Front desk

Slip No. 000412

Breakfast at the counter

Included

Brass key, hand cut

Yours to hold

Bicycles

On request

Late check-out

Ask the desk

Record player

Most rooms

Wi-Fi

Fast, free

Thank you. Come again.

§ 04 — The street outside

The front desk recommends.

Ranked by how long it takes to walk there.

Full neighborhood guide

2 min

Ostra Bakery

Coffee

The rye loaf comes out at 7:40. Be there at 7:35.

3 min

Hallway Wine

Drink

Natural pours, twelve seats and no reservations.

4 min

Café Mercier

Coffee

Sit outside, even in November. Blankets appear.

5 min

Calder Market

Shop

Saturdays only. Flowers at the north gate.

6 min

Marrow & Lime

Eat

Order the whole fish and share it.

§ 05 — House notes

From the journal.

Read the journal

Ink-stained concrete floor with a brass marker plate

House Notes

4 min read

Why we kept the press-room floor

The concrete is cracked and stained with ink. We sealed it and left every mark where it was.

Neighborhood

6 min read

A morning on Calder Street, minute by minute

From the first rye loaf at 7:40 to the market crowd at ten. A short guide to the street outside our door.

Kitchen

3 min read

The breakfast counter has no menu

Eggs how you like them, bread from across the street and whatever fruit looked best at the market.

Reservations

Ring the bell.

Write to the front desk with your dates. A real person answers, usually within the hour.

Book a key