Inspiration: Hotel Headwalls

Yesterday we wrote about art over beds but there are other options for decorating a headwall. These amazing hotel headwalls not only change the scale of the beds but also create an all-encompassing, dreamlike space. Follow the jump for more images and info on these lovely spaces...

Designed by Marcel Wanders, this headwall comes from Suite 7 of the Lute Suites in Amsterdam. The soaring upholstered headwall takes on an Alice in Wonderland feeling, reaching all the way up into the gable of this loft-like space.

This second room comes from the Hotel Particulier Montmartre in Paris. The wallpaper evokes the feeling of sleeping in the trees. The light fixtures on the wall and night tables help produce a strange feeling of depth to the flat walls, adding to the overall dreamlike space.

Which do you prefer and how could you apply these concepts to your own bedroom headwall?

Comments (13)

Those trees are trippy.

posted by mlleErica on January 15th 2009 at 3:33pm
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That upholstered wall is HOT

posted by bepsf on January 15th 2009 at 4:09pm
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I'm already rolling the idea of the tufted wall in my head, wondering...

posted by mschatelaine on January 15th 2009 at 4:14pm
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The tufted wall is a bit too Bedlam for me. Theoretically, I like it... in practice it looks oppressive.

posted by heartstricken.moose on January 15th 2009 at 4:22pm
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I want that upholstered wall bedroom! The gabled roof is so awesome!

posted by repressd on January 15th 2009 at 5:51pm
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Very cool. I found this one and I think I like it, but it also kind of reminds me of a cheese grater. :-)

posted by anabelle on January 15th 2009 at 6:22pm
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heartsickstricken.moose -- With your permission, I'd like to steal the phrase "a bit too bedlam" as the title of my never-to-be-written autobiography.

That forested Parisian hotel room is wonderfully surreal. I keep waiting for Mr. Tumnus to prance through the door.

posted by rosenatti on January 15th 2009 at 7:55pm
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Does anyone know where the elephant lamp is from?

posted by Flochie on January 16th 2009 at 9:34pm
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No and No.

posted by bejeweled on January 17th 2009 at 12:10am
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Ewww....

posted by JoanneM on January 19th 2009 at 1:43pm
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I have always liked the idea of a large upholstered wall like that above, it reminds me of the dressing room at Maxfield Blue on Roberston in LA

posted by LoriSF on January 19th 2009 at 1:51pm
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I really don't feel the colors for these but I like the top to bottom padded wall concept, that could make things really kinky.

posted by LittleChris on January 19th 2009 at 2:56pm
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I agree with other posts that the tufted wall is a bit much..but the idea of all over wall/ceiling wallpaper is genius to make you feel youve entered a new atmostphere and not just a room!

posted by greenbasil on January 20th 2009 at 12:43pm
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