Bedroom is everyone’s most private place. That’s why we tend to give more personal touch to it. The key is: Let your ideas flow freely.
Have you heard about Hotel FOX? It’s last year’s issue, but you can still get some inspiration from these cool and artistic style for your bedroom.
The goal of the Hotel FOX was to create a hotel for the "young urban traveler“. A hotel – a meeting point for people with various backgrounds anyway – was the perfect ‚playground’ for the project. The owners of the hotel formerly known as Park Hotel in downtown Copenhagen made newly renovated white rooms available, creating space for the unusual concepts of the artists.
Twenty-one artists and artist groups from thirteen countries and five continents ventured into new terrain and created sixty-one rooms that showcased an unprecedented diversity of urban lifestyles. Inspired by the room designs young hotel business scholars worked out a service concept that through their enthusiasm and fresh ideas became a successful continuation of the artistic room designs. Here are some of them:
Andreas Mindt: Highlights
Precise and dynamic curving lines run throughout the entire room. Fine lines become large areas, then disappearing into a counter curve. It is reminiscent of the psychedelic wallpapers of the 70s or modern “tribal tattoos”.
Vehicle details are only discovered at second glance – tail lights, wheel arches, wheel housing are visible. Sharp contrasts are mirrored in the surface of the body, therefore highlighting the reflections which appear on the car. The flow of these highlights is a benchmark for the design quality.
The type of representation is typical of computer programs that are used to analyze the vehicle shape. It was used here to develop a seemingly two dimensional graphic of the VW Fox which then allows the third dimension to appear on closer view.
The oversized representation of the highlights opens up new ways to access the vehicle design and shows the love of detail behind the VW Fox.
Benjamin Güdel: Geissenpeter
Wonder. Being Swiss, Güdel decided to use the ultimate kitsch literary theme for his rooms: The story of Heidi by Johanna Spyri. “If you come from Switzerland, like me, you always have at least one grandfather who was a farmer...” he says. “Heidi was awakened early the next morning by a loud whistle; the sun was shining through the round window and falling in golden rays on her bed and on the large heap of hay, and as she opened her eyes everything in the loft seemed to gleam with gold.” Johanna Spyri.
WK-Interact: Ecstasy
Spacing out. Interact describes his room designs as being “like a flip book in motion”. He was interested in “feeling the space” rather than just coming up with paintings for the walls. “…And heavy-hooded eyes inside her black hair / Shined at me from the depths of her hair deepest black / While my fingers pushed into her straight black hair / Pulling her black hair back from her happy heart-shaped face…” Nick Cave.
Hort: Cultivated Nature Is More Fun
Boxed in. Hort see creating a hotel room as a responsibility: “Someone is going to live in this room for a while, they are going to breathe the atmosphere more intensely than someone just visiting like at an exhibition. This is an artificial world that will surround the hotel guest from top to bottom. This room is something that can be visited again and again – like a children’s book. There are lots of little stories in the landscape waiting to be discovered.”
Container: Clubs - The Secret Palace
Feeling special. Container came up with a royal theme for their four rooms “to emphasise the feeling of being special that one gets when one stays in a hotel.” They also based their rooms on the four suites in a pack of cards. Room 309 is clubs: “FOXy deep red paints and fabrics mixed with a dark and sultry palette makes this a seductive and sophisticated room. It is designed to intoxicate and relax – like a nightclub with beautiful sexy princess women, party-divas, and men who look like clowns.”
Birgit Amadori: King's Court 1
Space. Amadori is currently very interested in myths, legends, and mystical symbols and wanted to create magical rooms (in the traditional sense) full of life and a rich diversity: “You are invited to spend a night at the King's Court. The King and Queen have gathered their magicians, jesters, fortune-tellers and other mystical courtiers to greet you. Blue represents the King's Court and is associated with trust, loyalty and honesty. Also it is the colour of the sky and the deep sea, which suggest infinite freedom.”
Birgit Amadori: King’s Forest
Space. Amadori is currently very interested in myths, legends, and mystical symbols and wanted to create magical rooms - in the traditional sense - full of life and a rich diversity: “The forest is populated with beings beyond your imagination but the FOX, traditionally known as the traveller between worlds, will be there to guide you. King’s Forest is a place of spiritual freedom, and also a place to gather energy. Take a stroll through King’s Forest and see what secrets are hidden behind its trees.”
Kinpro: Mori
Travelling imagination. Chisato’s inspiration came from her homeland of Hokkaido in the north of Japan: “There is a lot of nature and countryside there. There are four distinct seasons to the year and there is a lot of snow in winter. – ‘Mori’ means forest in Japanese. My imagination spends a lot of time in the forest because I have lived near one at the foot of a mountain since I was a child.”
Pandarosa: Supernova
Organic ideas. Pandarosa’s room concept “was inspired by projections and the way they curve around and engulf their projected surfaces” as well as “the places, food, history, people, weather, emotions and feelings we have experienced during our journeys.” The Supanova room is intended to be: “A blossoming explosion of life that expands throughout the entire room, reaching all within and creating an organic mood within an urban space.”
E-Types: Complexity-Reliability
Form and function. E-Types are also conscious of their pedagogic duties and hope that a stay in their rooms will make their guests think and reflect upon the different issues embedded in the design. “The old rule of thumb does still exist: Never trust statistics with unnamed sources. Strive to create your own understanding of the data, and question causalities. Design is, and will always be a content-driven business… We’re all in the business of making sense.”
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