Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
YOWIE Hotel
A design shop on South Street grew a hotel upstairs, and almost everything in it is for sale.
Open · 2023
Philadelphia design retailer YOWIE expanded its South Street shop into a 15-room hotel in 2023, filling a building in Queen Village that had never operated as a hotel before. Nearly everything in the rooms, from art to furnishings, can be bought on the spot.
The essentials
- Group
- Independent
- Opening
- 2023
- Rooms & suites
- 15 rooms
- Segment
- Boutique
- Designer
- Shannon Maldonado
- Entry rate
- From $200
The place
YOWIE occupies a building on South Street in Queen Village, just south of Philadelphia's historic core, above the ground-floor design shop and café that share its name.
The concept
Founder Shannon Maldonado expanded her design retail concept, YOWIE, into a small hotel that opened in 2023: the first hotel use of the building, converted from a design boutique rather than a former hotel. Rooms are individually decorated with local artwork, curated books and handmade objects, and the retail-hospitality hybrid means most of what furnishes a room can be purchased on the way out, an unusual but consistent design premise for a boutique property this size.
Dining & wellness
The ground-floor café, Forin, serves locally sourced breakfast and lunch through the day; rooms are stocked with Malin + Goetz bath products, and select suites add full kitchens.
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