The recently-opened Poli House boutique hotel got the Karim Rashid touch with brightly colored interiors to greet guests.

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Tel Aviv, also know as the White City, is home to the world?s largest number of buildings (about 4,000) of Bauhaus-style buildings. Walking through the city, one notices that many of these buildings are neglected and dilapidated, even though Tel Aviv was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site.

But strolling up to the corner of Allenby and Nahalat Binyamin, there is one building that has been gloriously restored. Gleaming white with a curved edifice and luminous windows, it?s home to the just-opened Poli House boutique hotel, which underwent a three-year restoration process. Originally built in 1934, the Poli House used to be called The Polishuk House, and housed commercial office space, shops, and a clandestine Etzel printing press. Its Bauhaus-style edifice was designed by Shlomo Liaskowski, who was born in Zurich in 1903 and moved to British Mandate Palestine in 1929. But up until the last decade, the Polishuk House was uninhabited and derelict, its edifice covered in graffiti. One only has to look as far as the identically shaped building across the street to imagine what it looked like?that one has yet to be restored.

Opening the hotel?s doors, guests are confronted with a wonderful surprise: the interior is bright, ultra-modern, and full of neon color accents, a sig...