18 March, 2007 |

Design-hotels: night nightmares are included in cost of residing

Berlin - Propeller Island City Lodge
The kaleidoscope of images and spirits
Four-star Propeller Island City Lodge hotel offers the materialized fruit of imaginations of the architect. All subjects of 45 rooms interior are executed manually and unique, and the special theme declared in their names corresponds to each number. For example, Symbol Room, consisting of 300 black-and-white squares-symbols, will certainly plunge the lodger into reflections about a universe, as well as someone seemed “cozy” number Freedom representing simply a prison cell, whence, by a hole in a wall, the former prisoner has run away, having left the future lodgers for memory the hammer forgotten on a floor. As well as it is necessary to stylistics of prison cells, the room number is far from the luxury: the toilet and a washstand are absolutely beside, in the same room. The Mirror Room represents an opportunity to consider and surrounding stop in a mirror kaleidoscope, in passing reflecting about metaphysics of the world and its separation, and in room Upside Down the world has really turned over: a bed is on a ceiling, and a luster is on a floor… How and where to sleep to sleep? It turns out that, for a berth the convenient box in a cellar is adapted. And the special attention is given to the main vacation spot - to beds. Forms and their arrangement is a separate theme of the designer. The visitor is also offered a couple of “pretty” coffins, suspended on circuits at height of one and a half meter, shaking box (it is possible to climb up in it on vertically put up ladder), a huge wooden round table from fairy tales about giants, which actually appears a sofa.
The cost of numbers is from €70-190 per person.
Madrid - Puerta America
The museum of forms and colors
What will turn out, if 19 eminent architects will work above one project? Madrid five-star Puerta America hotel is a place for acquaintance to modern architecture. As unlike museums where it is possible to contemplate only the exposed exhibits, in hotel - Puerta America each visitor has an opportunity to lie down, sit and even “to open-close and twist” on these design features. At entrance the fact-finding card on which it is possible “to choose the designer” is handed over to the visitor.

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