Jill found this link to a hotel that has 31 super odd themed rooms (ie. coffin room, chicken curry and space cube), each one of which is an interior decor tour de force. We haven't been able to find out where the hotel is (our guess? Holland or Germany), but we pass on all the remarkable ideas that are contained in the pictures.
That first room looks like it belongs here: http://www.shelterrific.com/2007/01/31/holy-cow-a-mac-n-cheese-debate/
The hotel is in Berlin: http://www.propeller-island.com/
A hotel in Bangkok, Thailand has rooms designed by different local artists: http://www.reflections-thai.com/
Reminds me of the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo. A friend told me to stop by while I was visiting Hearst Castle. Unbelievable - I swear I felt like I was in a David Lynch movie. If anyone is ever in the area, it is certainly a stop worth making.
http://www.madonnainn.com/tour/137.asp
Thanks for the link, Robert. Now THIS is innovative design!
It's nowhere this cool, but there's a hotel in NYC that has rooms designed by all different artists:
http://www.carltonarms.com/rooms.html
Innovation aside, all but the cloud room look like they were designed for psychological torture. I think these are more appropriate as installation than habitation.
"Unfortuntately, security regulations bar this room from being rented out to overweight guests!"
Uh, yeah. I'm not overweight but I'll pass anyhow.
I have stayed at the propeller island...we started in the castle room, did the black and white room, and, on the last night, my friend stayed in the dwarf room, billed at the time as "the smallest hotel room in europe". You had to climb a ladder to it.
The guy who ran the place was a bit of a nut. Wouldn't let you leave with a key, but often wasn't around to let you in. And then he had a huge party one night that spilled into all the rooms. He was a man on a mission, but he was a bit humorless about it.
Windowless monochromatic rooms, ack.
I think you've neglected to mention that the Red Death kills everyone who stays here at midnight. Protip: if the all-black room features a grandfather clock, re-book.
Another hotel with cool rooms (although not as wacky as the Propeller Hotel!) is Hotel Fox in Denmark.
http://www.hotelfox.dk/rooms.html
I'm often a fan of off-beat design, but when I saw these hotel rooms I thought "Oh, grow up!"
I stayed in the orange room that you posted, it was awesome! So relaxing, soothing. We definitely got a key to go in and out, so I don't know why christine got that weird treatment. I highly recommend the hotel!
oh, and there is a window, a very very large window, in the orange room. You just can't see it!