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An award-winning Scottish spa chain is to open its sixth Glasgow location in 2023 as part of its partnership with Hilton Hotels.

The new luxury PURE spa in the city centre will welcome customers on January 3.

The venue will include three tranquil treatment rooms for all pampering services such as massage and facials, body scrubs and more.

Spa guests will have access to the hotel’s health club which features a gym, indoor pool, sauna, and steam room. The location will be PURE's 21st in the UK and their sixth within a hotel.

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The landmark Hilton Glasgow hotel is set to undergo a large-scale refurbishment having appointed Scottish commercial interior design company Bell & Swift to help transform the hotel.

The hotel refurb is set to include all 319 existing guestrooms, an additional three guestrooms harvested from a redundant executive lounge on the 18th floor, and function and leisure spaces across the hotel. Bell & Swift have been working onsite, to create three model rooms for feasibility testing of the designs of the standard, deluxe and executive level suites. The function and pre-function areas are due for completion in December 2020 with the rest of the project to continue to be rolled out the following year.

Bell & Swift, headed up by Dawn Campbell and Craig McKie, are a leading commercial interior design agency, with over 20 years of experience in hotel design. The team, based in Glasgow, specialise in interior design for global hotel chains, boutique spaces and renovation projects which they’ve carried out across the globe. Dawn and Craig have worked with the Hilton team on a number of projects throughout their career including projects for their Doubletree and Hampton by Hilton brands. They are enjoying the opportunity to work on a project closer to home.

The design concept is centred around Glasgow heritage, taking inspiration from the “Glasgow Style” made famous by world renowned designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

The newly designed hotel rooms will feature bespoke furniture elements, designed in a linear style as a nod to the iconic designer. Carpets and soft furnishing selections are inspired by the work of sisters Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh and Frances MacDonald MacNair. The Ballroom and Pre-function Bar required a complete redesign and will continue the Glasgow Style but on a grander scale, to allow suitability for functions and gatherings and help re-establish the hotel as Scotland’s premier function destination. The Ballroom is the largest of the hotels function spaces at 944 sq. m.