HOTels
Designer hotels are popping up all over the world. Choice is the name of the game at the moment and undressing and redressing old hotels to futurefit them in a variety of interiors seems to be the latest buzz right now. I blogged before about a sorta budgety type one in Bangkok I went to, Reflections, which has each room done up by local artists, kooky and homely. Very very Thai.
Here in Singapore, The Majestic hotel opened recently to some fanfare till it was featured in the papers and every other rag here.
Often, these designer hotels don't really sort out space issues, which I'd suppose would be the priority in a hotel room; but rather just the aesthetic decorations in most cases. That's not to say that I hate this stuff. I just find its a good example of how design trends are explained by a propulsion of technology and affluence. You wouldn't have funky designer hotels that appeal to the young and trendy if they didn't have the money in the first place. Places like this thrive on the hype generated by magazine/newspaper/blog features.
Check out HOTEL FOX from Denmark. FRAME mag says that the hotel was a result of car company wolkswagen opening up this place in Copenhagen to different artists, designers and the like. The room above is room 107, Good Spirits by Rinzen. Gotta love those splatters on the bed huh. The Oz based wizards also did up another 3 rooms in the hotel. Other featured bignames are... Geneviève Gauckler, WK Interact and tokidoki among people from from as far afield as Brazil and Venzuela, to Germany, the UK, US, Scandinavia and Japan.
