Hotel Kämp on the Pohjoisesplanadi (Northern Esplanade) in Helsinki was inaugurated on October 29, 1887 as a distinctive 5-floor luxury hotel with even a hydraulic lift. The furniture was mainly ordered from St. Petersburg, the crystal chandeliers from Berlin. The guests were served fresh oysters from Odense. Many of the country's greatest cultural personalities, artists and architects gathered around the tables over the years, among them Jean Sibelius, Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Eliel Saarinen. The hotel director Carl Kämp himself died as early as 1889. The hotel business was closed down in 1965 but resumed in the same building, designed by Theodor Höijer, in 1999. Today Hotel Kämp belongs to the prestigious association for luxury hotels, LHW.