"The concept of the “hipster” is a contentious one, but it’s safe to say that Shoreditch, the London district that’s home to the original Hoxton hotel, and Portland, the counterculture capital of the Pacific Northwest, have <em>something</em> in common. The Hoxton, Portland, set just outside the Chinatown Gateway, adapts the brand’s post-industrial aesthetic to a century-old building, but it’s not a copy of the London edition — here the Hoxton group’s in-house design studio took their inspiration from the Northwest modernist movement of the Sixties and Seventies." - Tablet Hotels