This bedroom by Victorio & Lucchinio
The usual rule of thumb in decorating is that rooms in a home flow into each other. The blue rug in one room is picked up in the blue lamp in another; if you go traditional in one room, chances are your other rooms will follow suit. And the same thing is usually true in hotels. And that is all well and good but sometimes it seems like it would be fun to mix it up...
This bedroom is by Zaha Hadid
The people at
Hotel Puerta América Madrid think so too. Each floor is decorated by a different designer. From Zaha Hadid to Marc Newson to Ron Arad and more, each floor has been given over to a different designer. Think. You can't get bored and you can't get lost. Why not bring a little of this feeling into your own space? Change it up by letting each room have its own personality. Go Hollywood Regency in your living room while thinking Minimalist in your bedroom.
This bedroom is by David Chipperfield
This sounds like the Hotel Birger Jarl that I stayed in while visiting Stockholm. If I remember correctly, designers had a hand in a specific room on each floor, then the rest of the rooms on that floor were designed to match the original. It was a great place to stay and I highly recommend it!
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It seems to me that decorating a hotel this way is completely different from decorating a home this way. If you pay to stay in one room, and all of the other rooms on your floor are similar in style to that one room, how would you ever know that the rest of the hotel was radically different?
You don't experience any of the incongruity of the sudden changes of style, not like you would if you had them in your home. Of course, for some people the incongruity enlivens and amuses them. In that case, by all means, go ahead. But this hotel seems like a poor model for that. Each room, each little environment is, after all, a congruous elegant space.
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Looking over the rooms on the hotel website - this looks awesome! 290Euro/night is not cheap, but looks like a real treat, designwise.
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