About Ramme Fjordhotell

Ramme fjordhotell: An art hotel

Ramme fjordhotell is our art hotel with a historical feel. The hotel consists of two buildings with 42 unique rooms, and was newly built in 2020.

The Distillery

The Distillery is one of the two hotel buildings, and is constructed as a factory building in the style of the 1880s.
It testifies to the fact that not more than 150 years ago, factory buildings were designed with an aesthetic eye.
In the 1880s, industrial buildings were meant to impress, as it was a way to show influence, capital or ideals.
If you compare the building with factories of today, which are only in the service of functionality and cost-efficiency, you can easily wonder about the reason for this enormous change in value perception.

The distillery is of a building style that was abundantly represented in the Christiania of the past - the city Edvard Munch sought refuge from here on Ramme, but which was still with him in mind.

The factory buildings along the Akerselva River were, like the distillery, made of brick.

Oslo was formed on an old seabed, so the clay deposits are large and consequently the brick used was almost always locally produced in the city.

The distillery has a facade style that is very similar to the Hanover type, with a round arch style and exposed brick. There is relatively little decoration on the building, which is rather austere in style.

The Rooms in the Distillery

All rooms in the Distillery are uniquely decorated, and each room has a reproduction of a Munch painting, after which the room is named.

Read more about Edvard Munch's paintings in the Distillery here.

The Inn

The Inn has references to the 1780s, with elements inspired by architecture from Scandinavia.

As a link between the 17th and 19th centuries, Bonaparte himself stands and welcomes you.

The half-timbered building is based on the rich heritage of the Middle Ages, especially in England, Germany and France.

Artists have used half-timbered houses as a source of inspiration since the English village became a popular motif for painters in the 18th and 20th centuries.

This is a building technique that requires skilled craftsmen. The sleepers (horizontal), the posts (vertical) and the diagonal strips - the very "skeleton" of the half-timbered building - should be erected first, according to building tradition. After the wall and roof structures have been erected, the empty spaces should be filled with bricks.

In the past, the use of color was used to a greater extent than today as a sign of prosperity.

Some colors were expensive to produce, as the source of the color was rare - an element that is not relevant today.

The doors at Herberget are green. In the past, green was made from chrome oxide and zinc, which were expensive minerals and therefore not so common.

Green doors signaled prosperity, and that something was built with great diligence and with visions that it would last.

The Herberget thus represents, with its traditional half-timbered design, a manifestation of a building that stands for traditional and family values.

It is no coincidence - as nothing is here at Ramme - that each room in the Herberget is named after a person in the Olsen family.

In traditional Norwegian architecture, a house usually consists of three parts: lem (top), loft and bu (ground floor).

Outside the bu, you often find the svalen - or svalgangen. It is easy to understand that the veranda is a favorite element in a weather-exposed climate, as it provides shelter from rain and shelter from wind.

In Norwegian building practice, we find the veranda in even the oldest buildings that still stand and characterize the landscape; many of the mighty stave churches have a veranda around the outer walls.

Like Norwegian town houses from the 15th-17th centuries and later, which often had the veranda facing the courtyard, Herberget has the veranda facing the common space Stallgården.

The veranda creates direct belonging and interaction between the building and the common area outside, and is a useful and enjoyable means of communication between people inside and outside the house.

The rooms in Herberget

All rooms in Herberget are uniquely decorated, and the rooms are named after a contemporary artist, or someone with connections to the Olsen family.

The Paris Suite

At the top of the hotel is a suite unlike any other. It contains two bedrooms, a lounge, two bathrooms, a private outdoor roof terrace and a sauna.